Why do NPR listeners have an aura of being snobs? I listen to it quite a bit, because I like the coverage and the interviews. And is there any other type of news radio? Besides the shit on AM that carries the likes of Larry Elder and Sean Hannity? I don't think you can call that news, more like propaganda and hang-wringing.
Although, NPR listeners probably lament the most that most entertainment outlets cater to the strictly under 25 set -- but they're the ones who are kind of responsible for that. If people over the age of 30 went to see more intelligent movies, bought less overly manufactured pop music and supported music artists who have trully worked on their craft or watched the kind of TV that wasn't so the MTV/WB/CW target demographic, then maybe the
Oh, another thing about NPR. I heard a story today stating that George Lucas gave USC's cinema school a $175 million grant, but then he said that LucasFilm was getting out of the film business and getting into the TV business! Citing that movies are too expensive to make and the risk is too large. Well, if you're looking to continue "making" the utter BULLSHIT that he's been turning out since the Raiders of the Lost Ark (arguably everything after that has been cheap rehash of the same idea -- Episodes V and VI of the first Star Wars, the yak-shit of the second trilogy, the underwealming Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the recycled Willow, the weak 2nd through 4th installments of the Indianan Jones films, oh and who can forget Howard the Duck and Radioland Murders; never mind the so-called updating of the effects in the Star Wars movies), all the while driving up the costs of cutting edge special effects so the video game division of Lucas's empire can doublebill the development expense... then sure movies are too fucking expensive and wildly out of control gambles.
Truth be told George Lucas isn't a very dramaturgical creative person, he was just someone who jumped into the film game at a time when the space age was filtering all of its advances to the consumer world and he figured why not bring computers to film production. Just look at his output since he was seduced by silicon and binary code -- shody at best.
But it seems to me that movies can be made for half the price of the original Star Wars flim and still be damn good. There was a Russian film that came out called "NIGHT WATCH", which supposedly cost $4million and the effects work rivaled anything Industrial Light & Magic has done for ten times the budget (by that I mean the effects budget).
I fail to see how a show like "Battlestar Galatica" at $10mil an episode is less risky and more captivating than a film like CITY OF GOD with its barely $3million budget... truth be told budgets are relative. It's marketing costs, and the one thing Lucas did very well was learn how to create a brand that sells product as interesting as rotten chicken gizzards, and the public laps it up like it was the best French ice cream.
Every filmmaking center OUTSIDE of the United States can make highly entertaining AND smart films the cost of Tom Hanks' salary on a project. Although, maybe you wouldn't know about that if you only got your news and free-thinking expression for big media controlled outlets...
Friday, November 03, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
SHAMELESS PLUG
So the scuttlebutt around Hollywood these days is that "Studio 60: Live on the Sunset Strip" is on the verge of being cancelled.
This might be the stupidest thing that NBC-Universal has done (next to deciding not to have expense programing in the 8pm hour) since GE combined the two companies and they lost Stacy Snider as the head of universal.
TV has been outstanding as entertainment, surpassing movies because movies became "product" whereas TV is all about selling product... and Sorkin's incisive wit and commentary on what's hip for pop culture beyond the Paris/Brittany set. Sure the show is about what goes on at someplace that people don't get or maybe wanna get, but the pressures of creating the material that entertains the general audience is indeed compelling drama. The battle between art and commerce probably doesn't mean SHIT to 95% of the viewing audience, but they love it when art edges out business just for a second and engaging material is the result (whether it's TV, books, movies, theater or music). And obivously it's not The Office, which is perhaps the most familiar TV known to have been conceived, but not everyone can make light of the world of the Wage Slave that far too many of us suffer(ed) under.
People love to read biographies of famous people who bucked the odds, but those people are usually famous from doing something in the realm of "art" (i.e. Coco Chanel, Liz Taylor, Picasso, Jennifer Aniston), not bold-faced commerce and Sorkin's examination of the trials and tribulations of "putting it together" is pulls back the curtain to a certain extent. However, not as shameless as any "making of" supplement on the most recent of DVDs.
True, the in-show comedy sketches need to be better (i.e. hire some writers strictly for that purpose alone), but the human condition plumbed on Monday nights at 10pm is worth more people watching. So get out the Vote, and set your Nielson boxes or deluge NBC's email box with "keep this show" spam bombs. Whatever it takes. Sorkin is worth it -- I don't know how many people adored the West Wing, but I doubt it was the same huge number of fans by the end of the first season as it was at the beginning.
Election Practices... Reminds Me of Jim Crow
I was listening to an NPR story this evening about the problem with electronic voting machines, and how some weak-as-fuck sonsabitches are strident proponents for these new fangled contraptions.
WHY? Somebody please tell me why!
In an age when anything and everything electronic is patently not safe, to entrust the cornerstone of the country's saving grace smacks of sucking your own dick. Sure you could do it, by bending yourself out of shape, but what fun is it? And it sure isn't as satisfying as if it was done right!
But of course, America (particularly the America that GOP supporters and Traditionalist as defined by Bill O'Reilly in his egregious book Culture Warrior) doesn't really want to be a democratic society any more -- if it ever wanted to be one since the Fall of Hitler. Remember, before Hitler the IRS and other governmental practices, institutions and clandestine activities were the exception of oppression. Now, we live in a so-called country that props up Democracy the way a pimp props up his pretty bitch at the beginning of the night -- eventhough he WHUPPED her ass the night before! He does it, 'cause it's the best way to keep business going and to have the illusion continue, yet the reality is torn up and disrespected like you wouldn't believe.
My issue with electronic voting machines is that like computers they can probably be hacked with the greatest of ease by another who has a C++ rules & regulations manual.
The worst offender is the Ohio Secretary of State, a fool who's changing the voting rules time & time again to enable his GOP's dick sucking ass to win the election in a state that has for the last 11 presidential elections been critical/key/paramount to rolling on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hard to believe a slump-shouldered state like Ohio has so much clout in national politics. I mean there ain't shit in the whole damn state except for the Cleveland Clinic that really has any value. Ohio is one of those state's that could be hit by Kim Jong Il's nuke arsenal and what happens? (in a world where there's no fall out that is?) Biggest problem with OH elections is that they do a mighty fine job for a nothern state at keeping the niggas from casting ballots (in rigged elections anyway).
The fact that any Federal Election governing body refuses to step in -- wait a minute, wait a fucking minute that would mean trampling state's rights, obivously something that we are supposed to hold higher than all things but the Constitution itself; but something that's overrated as fuck when a single state's voters get raped with a hot iron by the GOP swindlers makes me rethink the entire concept of the US's vaunted democracy.
We shit on Ben Franklin's creation at home like it's nobody's business, and yet we're fighting a war to give it to straight-dick-wads who don't want it and/or don't give a flying dead dog dick yank about it in the first place; a war that's lasting nearly as long as the European campaign in WW2...
WHY? Somebody please tell me why!
In an age when anything and everything electronic is patently not safe, to entrust the cornerstone of the country's saving grace smacks of sucking your own dick. Sure you could do it, by bending yourself out of shape, but what fun is it? And it sure isn't as satisfying as if it was done right!
But of course, America (particularly the America that GOP supporters and Traditionalist as defined by Bill O'Reilly in his egregious book Culture Warrior) doesn't really want to be a democratic society any more -- if it ever wanted to be one since the Fall of Hitler. Remember, before Hitler the IRS and other governmental practices, institutions and clandestine activities were the exception of oppression. Now, we live in a so-called country that props up Democracy the way a pimp props up his pretty bitch at the beginning of the night -- eventhough he WHUPPED her ass the night before! He does it, 'cause it's the best way to keep business going and to have the illusion continue, yet the reality is torn up and disrespected like you wouldn't believe.
My issue with electronic voting machines is that like computers they can probably be hacked with the greatest of ease by another who has a C++ rules & regulations manual.
The worst offender is the Ohio Secretary of State, a fool who's changing the voting rules time & time again to enable his GOP's dick sucking ass to win the election in a state that has for the last 11 presidential elections been critical/key/paramount to rolling on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hard to believe a slump-shouldered state like Ohio has so much clout in national politics. I mean there ain't shit in the whole damn state except for the Cleveland Clinic that really has any value. Ohio is one of those state's that could be hit by Kim Jong Il's nuke arsenal and what happens? (in a world where there's no fall out that is?) Biggest problem with OH elections is that they do a mighty fine job for a nothern state at keeping the niggas from casting ballots (in rigged elections anyway).
The fact that any Federal Election governing body refuses to step in -- wait a minute, wait a fucking minute that would mean trampling state's rights, obivously something that we are supposed to hold higher than all things but the Constitution itself; but something that's overrated as fuck when a single state's voters get raped with a hot iron by the GOP swindlers makes me rethink the entire concept of the US's vaunted democracy.
We shit on Ben Franklin's creation at home like it's nobody's business, and yet we're fighting a war to give it to straight-dick-wads who don't want it and/or don't give a flying dead dog dick yank about it in the first place; a war that's lasting nearly as long as the European campaign in WW2...
Monday, October 30, 2006
01.20.09
That's Prescott's Grandson's final day to fuck the country, at least on an active scale 'cause we all know that the dick-slapping he's given the country will have these cosmic ripple effects that we won't begin to see the catastrophic effects of until sometime in the middle of the next decade.
There is something like 816 days left, until we can usher out the most dangerous president in the history of the game -- nay, the history of the planet moves out of office.
Did anyone read the current of Rolling Stone? The one that has a cartoom of the Capitol Building on the cover? How could you miss it? In the bottom right corner there is a drawing of a Congressman chasing a little boy (an seriously funny jab at child-dick sucker Mark Foley), the article inside is extra good at describing the painfully undemocratic (yet not unpatriotic) methods, activities and abuses that the GOP controlled Congress has partaken in since Newt "the hoe" Gingrich led the charge for the Republicans to control both houses of Congress.
One of the main federally sanctioned country-rape&pillage, James Sennesenbrenner DEFINITELY needs to be voted the fuck out of his congressional seat. Will it happen? Hard to say, as incumbents -- even ones as shady as his ass -- tend to win unless they egregiously fuck up. I'd laugh to see him lose, but it would be a short chuckle as the jaw-dropping pillaging and general bitch-slapping of America that he's done is damn near unfixable.
In fact, I'd wager that all the "bitch, take that!" tactics that the GOP has executed in the last 14 years won't ever be undone.
Only SEVEN DAYS left to see about changing the world as we know it... baby steps at a time.
There is something like 816 days left, until we can usher out the most dangerous president in the history of the game -- nay, the history of the planet moves out of office.
Did anyone read the current of Rolling Stone? The one that has a cartoom of the Capitol Building on the cover? How could you miss it? In the bottom right corner there is a drawing of a Congressman chasing a little boy (an seriously funny jab at child-dick sucker Mark Foley), the article inside is extra good at describing the painfully undemocratic (yet not unpatriotic) methods, activities and abuses that the GOP controlled Congress has partaken in since Newt "the hoe" Gingrich led the charge for the Republicans to control both houses of Congress.
One of the main federally sanctioned country-rape&pillage, James Sennesenbrenner DEFINITELY needs to be voted the fuck out of his congressional seat. Will it happen? Hard to say, as incumbents -- even ones as shady as his ass -- tend to win unless they egregiously fuck up. I'd laugh to see him lose, but it would be a short chuckle as the jaw-dropping pillaging and general bitch-slapping of America that he's done is damn near unfixable.
In fact, I'd wager that all the "bitch, take that!" tactics that the GOP has executed in the last 14 years won't ever be undone.
Only SEVEN DAYS left to see about changing the world as we know it... baby steps at a time.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Pop Music: A Euphoric Drug with a Sinister Purpose
I was having a conversation with my younger brother over the last couple days via our Crackberries (he's in London working on a new job and I'm back in the San Fernando Valley in a half-way house) about the differences in UK culture and American culture. What came up in the conversation is how the American public by in large is conditioned to be ignorant, in fact to relish in that ignorance.
I revived a theory that I had came up with a long time ago about how pop music (the culture it stems from) is much like at public control drug in Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World" called Soma. Pop music is controlled by the mega-corporations that have strong ties to the controlling forces in the U.S. Government. We all know that the Record Companies have done everything they can to take away the independent power of the various pop music movements over the past 40 years -- ranging from the rebellous nature of rock in the 60s (it all became corporatized), the raging, questioning zeitgeist of punk in 70s and early 80s, the "fuck the Man" nature of rap in the late 80s and early 90s -- and turned all that artist expression for questioning authority into money-making machines that made the marketing economics of the game more important than anything the artists were trying to do or say to their audience.
And at what expense? Everything those fringe music movements had going for them once they started becoming mainstream was stripped out of them like a Roman Soldier raping a Germanic tribeswoman.
Each of these musical movements became 'mainstream',became 'pop' as the major record labels started offering the artists scandalous amounts of money for control of their artistic destinies, and how much radio play any given artist would strive for/get.
The payola scandals that continue to this day have determined what mindless music blasts out of the FM dial, the MTV broadcast, and the XM satelite stream (mark my words, XM and Sirrus are taking cash, how can they not and get this -- they're beaming out info via satelite to anyone -- the FCC would put a stop to "serious seditious" sounds if they wanted to) is all designed to make you feel good when you're listening.
When you're feeling the euphoria that music conveys as it tickles the same pleasure sensors in your brain to cause your dick to get hard or your pussy to get wet, don't you wonder if it's causing you to not have rational thought?
Take a rave for example: drugs, sex and music -- the combination that can control the youth market at anytime and/or anyplace -- are the cornerstone to the success of those fantastic experiences. But the drug aspect violates each and every aspect of the War of Drugs policies from the early Reagan Administration -- don't you think those things would be shut the fuck down if they really posed a so-called threat? Cops and other law enforcement know all about that shit! How can they not? They just need to spread around some greenbacks and/or drugs and hopped up kids are jabbering away about the location and the ringleaders. The powers that be figure, keep the majority of kids high and thinking about everything else by the society that they're about to inherit...
You can't knock the orgamic power of music -- we all fuck to it, or at least we want to fuck to it, and the subject matter of a lot of music is about fucking; and everybody knows that when fucking is on the brain little else matters...
I revived a theory that I had came up with a long time ago about how pop music (the culture it stems from) is much like at public control drug in Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World" called Soma. Pop music is controlled by the mega-corporations that have strong ties to the controlling forces in the U.S. Government. We all know that the Record Companies have done everything they can to take away the independent power of the various pop music movements over the past 40 years -- ranging from the rebellous nature of rock in the 60s (it all became corporatized), the raging, questioning zeitgeist of punk in 70s and early 80s, the "fuck the Man" nature of rap in the late 80s and early 90s -- and turned all that artist expression for questioning authority into money-making machines that made the marketing economics of the game more important than anything the artists were trying to do or say to their audience.
And at what expense? Everything those fringe music movements had going for them once they started becoming mainstream was stripped out of them like a Roman Soldier raping a Germanic tribeswoman.
Each of these musical movements became 'mainstream',became 'pop' as the major record labels started offering the artists scandalous amounts of money for control of their artistic destinies, and how much radio play any given artist would strive for/get.
The payola scandals that continue to this day have determined what mindless music blasts out of the FM dial, the MTV broadcast, and the XM satelite stream (mark my words, XM and Sirrus are taking cash, how can they not and get this -- they're beaming out info via satelite to anyone -- the FCC would put a stop to "serious seditious" sounds if they wanted to) is all designed to make you feel good when you're listening.
When you're feeling the euphoria that music conveys as it tickles the same pleasure sensors in your brain to cause your dick to get hard or your pussy to get wet, don't you wonder if it's causing you to not have rational thought?
Take a rave for example: drugs, sex and music -- the combination that can control the youth market at anytime and/or anyplace -- are the cornerstone to the success of those fantastic experiences. But the drug aspect violates each and every aspect of the War of Drugs policies from the early Reagan Administration -- don't you think those things would be shut the fuck down if they really posed a so-called threat? Cops and other law enforcement know all about that shit! How can they not? They just need to spread around some greenbacks and/or drugs and hopped up kids are jabbering away about the location and the ringleaders. The powers that be figure, keep the majority of kids high and thinking about everything else by the society that they're about to inherit...
You can't knock the orgamic power of music -- we all fuck to it, or at least we want to fuck to it, and the subject matter of a lot of music is about fucking; and everybody knows that when fucking is on the brain little else matters...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
"Not On My Watch"
Why is it that the phrases - "not on my watch" or "never again" are the most hot air any politician can breath?
Let's take a look at what is happening on George W. Bush's watch -- now although it's veracity could be called into question, American and Iraqi health officials estimate that some 655,000 Iraqis have died since Hussein got the boot. If that's true, it only half of that number is true, then we're looking at something akin to... akin to... Darfur! Where at least 250,000 Sudanese have been slaughtered.
Curiously that puts a potential death toll -- for stoppable, avoidable violence, upwards of 1 million people. Kind of reminds me of the wholesale genocide in Rwanda about a decade ago.
I'll tell you something though, what's the deal with reform? I've spoken earlier about the need for a Reformation in Islam, much like what we saw in Christianity and Hebrew teachings. Now here's something I learned recently about even the calls for reform -- in an Islamic state/society those calls are a crime punishable by death. And believe you me, there would be NO shortage of so-called protectors of the faith brandishing Black & Decker drills and other hardware tools to dismember who ever was speaking out. I guess it has to do with the fact that Muhammed told muthafuckas that what he was doing was the final correction -- ain't nothing else is need.
I link this to what's going on in Sudan and Iraq, because they are both Islamic societies (at the ruling party in Sudan is) and they're causing problems globally... can we all wish for the day when religious violence based on some crap from the so-called Holy Land is only read out in out-of-print history books?
Let's take a look at what is happening on George W. Bush's watch -- now although it's veracity could be called into question, American and Iraqi health officials estimate that some 655,000 Iraqis have died since Hussein got the boot. If that's true, it only half of that number is true, then we're looking at something akin to... akin to... Darfur! Where at least 250,000 Sudanese have been slaughtered.
Curiously that puts a potential death toll -- for stoppable, avoidable violence, upwards of 1 million people. Kind of reminds me of the wholesale genocide in Rwanda about a decade ago.
I'll tell you something though, what's the deal with reform? I've spoken earlier about the need for a Reformation in Islam, much like what we saw in Christianity and Hebrew teachings. Now here's something I learned recently about even the calls for reform -- in an Islamic state/society those calls are a crime punishable by death. And believe you me, there would be NO shortage of so-called protectors of the faith brandishing Black & Decker drills and other hardware tools to dismember who ever was speaking out. I guess it has to do with the fact that Muhammed told muthafuckas that what he was doing was the final correction -- ain't nothing else is need.
I link this to what's going on in Sudan and Iraq, because they are both Islamic societies (at the ruling party in Sudan is) and they're causing problems globally... can we all wish for the day when religious violence based on some crap from the so-called Holy Land is only read out in out-of-print history books?
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
JACKASS PARTY SLITS ITS OWN THROAT
I can't help but chuckle and giggle at the G.O.P. these last few weeks -- the Foley Fucking Underage Pages Sex Scandal is absolutely hilarious. The one thing the stories about Foley's predatory predilections is that we don't if he actually bedded down other aides... I mean was he just constantly soliciting and never got it going, or did he actually score a few times over the past few years?
What's quite interesting about this shaken-to-the-core scandal is that since Newet Gingrich ushered in the NeoCons back during Clinton's first term, we have seen a rise of the Evangelical Christian Right and their need to shape the moral center/compass of the country. And yet, during that same time the level of sexual scandal, the level of raping and pillaging of the country, the level of monumental waste from Federal Government spending, the increase of drug use and decay of the urban centers (I don't give a FUCK what the stats say I know more people know than ever before who casually use drugs that it's silly) and the fact that America has effectively turned its back on a good 10% of its population (all the niggas living in the inner city or straight rural South -- ignored like they're homeless men holding a Feed Me sign at a 405 Freeway on-ramp!) has all increased, perhaps in direct correlation with the Grip on "what is morally right" that the Rapture nutcakes have been preaching.
The G.O.P. is no doubt rigging elections -- you can't believe otherwise. Why? Because that's what happens in countries where the Middle Class is basically non-existent or on its way out, and the rich and powerful run the show. You think that America has lost its ability to be democratic on the local, state and national, then you'd be thinking correctly! You don't see it now, because it is not pervasive. it doesn't need to be, all that needs to happen is election rigging needs to happen in Key States that can tip the balance in the fucked-up Electoral College System that we use over here.
And don't be fooled into thinking that America is all about spreading democracy across the Globe -- maybe for other white peoples, but not People of Color. In every place where the people aren't white and they FINALLY have an open, if not free election and the result is something that doesn't benefit the U.S.'s global empire agenda, the US protests the results and sends out the Jackals (CIA hitmen and Consulting Company mesmerizers) to find every way possible to reverse the results of the election. Case in point, The Gaza Strip/West Bank -- Hamas is what the people wanted. What's the problem with that? Let the Palestinians fuck themselves for a few years, they'll vote out the bitches -- if they prove to be bitches. I mean, imagine if the rest of the world wasn't down with our choice of President (as most of the world leaders did NOT want G.W. Bush re-elected, and yet economic sanctions and tariffs weren't levied against the US, why not?) Back in the early 70s, the US didn't want Chile to be ruled by Allende and his Communist passions, so they orchestrated his death -- and the dictator of all South American Banana Republic's ran that country just as bad as Sadam Hussein, just not as long, and he then changed his tune as he got old as fuck (Pinochet's in his 80s, Hussein in his 60s, meaning that when Pinochet was installed into power, he was already in his mid50s -- just at that point when you get tired of the fighting... so he was going to be giving it up by the mid80 -- like he did -- for the get-go.
I guess I'm disappointed that I'm still young and the world I'm inheriting from the Reagan & Bush years is perhaps the most catastrophic possible, because it signals the decline of the Pax Americana -- AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO ACT LIKE A PAID WHITE MAN, LIKE A FOOL! To do so now is completely irresponsible.
What's quite interesting about this shaken-to-the-core scandal is that since Newet Gingrich ushered in the NeoCons back during Clinton's first term, we have seen a rise of the Evangelical Christian Right and their need to shape the moral center/compass of the country. And yet, during that same time the level of sexual scandal, the level of raping and pillaging of the country, the level of monumental waste from Federal Government spending, the increase of drug use and decay of the urban centers (I don't give a FUCK what the stats say I know more people know than ever before who casually use drugs that it's silly) and the fact that America has effectively turned its back on a good 10% of its population (all the niggas living in the inner city or straight rural South -- ignored like they're homeless men holding a Feed Me sign at a 405 Freeway on-ramp!) has all increased, perhaps in direct correlation with the Grip on "what is morally right" that the Rapture nutcakes have been preaching.
The G.O.P. is no doubt rigging elections -- you can't believe otherwise. Why? Because that's what happens in countries where the Middle Class is basically non-existent or on its way out, and the rich and powerful run the show. You think that America has lost its ability to be democratic on the local, state and national, then you'd be thinking correctly! You don't see it now, because it is not pervasive. it doesn't need to be, all that needs to happen is election rigging needs to happen in Key States that can tip the balance in the fucked-up Electoral College System that we use over here.
And don't be fooled into thinking that America is all about spreading democracy across the Globe -- maybe for other white peoples, but not People of Color. In every place where the people aren't white and they FINALLY have an open, if not free election and the result is something that doesn't benefit the U.S.'s global empire agenda, the US protests the results and sends out the Jackals (CIA hitmen and Consulting Company mesmerizers) to find every way possible to reverse the results of the election. Case in point, The Gaza Strip/West Bank -- Hamas is what the people wanted. What's the problem with that? Let the Palestinians fuck themselves for a few years, they'll vote out the bitches -- if they prove to be bitches. I mean, imagine if the rest of the world wasn't down with our choice of President (as most of the world leaders did NOT want G.W. Bush re-elected, and yet economic sanctions and tariffs weren't levied against the US, why not?) Back in the early 70s, the US didn't want Chile to be ruled by Allende and his Communist passions, so they orchestrated his death -- and the dictator of all South American Banana Republic's ran that country just as bad as Sadam Hussein, just not as long, and he then changed his tune as he got old as fuck (Pinochet's in his 80s, Hussein in his 60s, meaning that when Pinochet was installed into power, he was already in his mid50s -- just at that point when you get tired of the fighting... so he was going to be giving it up by the mid80 -- like he did -- for the get-go.
I guess I'm disappointed that I'm still young and the world I'm inheriting from the Reagan & Bush years is perhaps the most catastrophic possible, because it signals the decline of the Pax Americana -- AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO ACT LIKE A PAID WHITE MAN, LIKE A FOOL! To do so now is completely irresponsible.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Leisure Time?!? Fuck That!!!
Two interesting news reports this week, and both have to do with the same thing -- the first one was the fact that Germany's industrial base is short some 38,000 engineers; the second is that the front pages of Japan's news papers are boaming the fact that Japan is losing is edge on "quality" in manufacturing.
What is this telling us about the manufacturing giants of the Industrial Age?
We all know that America's edge in just about everything except for TV/Film, drugs (illegal and legal) and financial has been considerably dull for at least 10 years -- if not longer, and now the other two post-WW2 powerhouses are stumbling.
The countries that emerged from the ashes of Hitler's nightmare and the Japanese aggression have pillaged the planet to the extent that they can't even sustain themselves with any kind of economic drive outside of the intangibles that are endemic to the ethos of the nation.
What is this telling us about the manufacturing giants of the Industrial Age?
We all know that America's edge in just about everything except for TV/Film, drugs (illegal and legal) and financial has been considerably dull for at least 10 years -- if not longer, and now the other two post-WW2 powerhouses are stumbling.
The countries that emerged from the ashes of Hitler's nightmare and the Japanese aggression have pillaged the planet to the extent that they can't even sustain themselves with any kind of economic drive outside of the intangibles that are endemic to the ethos of the nation.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
By the Power of the Holy Spirit - Smite the Mohammedian Followers
Apparently Benny the 16th set off a global row by quoting at 14th century text in which it was proclaimed -- "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Now if that isn't a swift kick in the ass, then I don't know what is??!?!
Granted the way the most loud-mouthed Muslims in the Arab world have brought condemnation upon the entire religion of late, so this reactionary-right-wing send up isn't entirely without provocation. However, you have to be careful when insulting a religion -- especially when it's coming for a Catholic -- a group that is perhaps the most tainted and blood-stained of all religions in the history of the world. And the thing with Muslims is, they trip at the slightest slight of Islam... remember how they were TRIPPIN'! when a couple of political cartoons mocking Mohammed were published earlier this year!
The thing is you can't really flunk the Catholic Church for dropping incindiary bombs on so-called heathens, as that's been its M.O. for its entire existence.
What is crazy is that the Vatican OBVIOUSLy had people go over and over and over the speach, before it was given and they "didn't catch" the blast at Islam? Hard to believe. To top it off, Benny the 16th was supposed to be going to Turkey next week for some sort of state function -- not a smart move to keep that trip on the schedule. Although Pope Johnny P Deuce was shot and survived another 20 years, who's to say that Benny the 16th couldn't take a bullet and maintain the papal seat for another 5 or 10 years.
We'll see...
Now if that isn't a swift kick in the ass, then I don't know what is??!?!
Granted the way the most loud-mouthed Muslims in the Arab world have brought condemnation upon the entire religion of late, so this reactionary-right-wing send up isn't entirely without provocation. However, you have to be careful when insulting a religion -- especially when it's coming for a Catholic -- a group that is perhaps the most tainted and blood-stained of all religions in the history of the world. And the thing with Muslims is, they trip at the slightest slight of Islam... remember how they were TRIPPIN'! when a couple of political cartoons mocking Mohammed were published earlier this year!
The thing is you can't really flunk the Catholic Church for dropping incindiary bombs on so-called heathens, as that's been its M.O. for its entire existence.
What is crazy is that the Vatican OBVIOUSLy had people go over and over and over the speach, before it was given and they "didn't catch" the blast at Islam? Hard to believe. To top it off, Benny the 16th was supposed to be going to Turkey next week for some sort of state function -- not a smart move to keep that trip on the schedule. Although Pope Johnny P Deuce was shot and survived another 20 years, who's to say that Benny the 16th couldn't take a bullet and maintain the papal seat for another 5 or 10 years.
We'll see...
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Detroit Sucks Its Own Dick!!! Japs and Kruts can only shake their heads...
Ford Motor Company (followed by Chrysler) has just shit on itself once again, by admiting that Toyota is going to surpass it as the No. 2 automaker in the US market -- a position Ford held for over 70 years. Oh, in case you haven't been keeping up Ford shat on itself the first time THIS MONTH by stating that it's flushed away close to $9billion dollars and doesn't expect profitability until 2009
The people at DaimlerChrysler effectively admitted that its nearly impossible to make a profitable subcompact in the United States, and that China or another Asian country is where they'll have to outsource operations.
The big issue is that about a decade ago Detroit's Big failed to make teh major structural shift in its business operations -- mainly make cars that consumer actually want to buy -- and instead focused on making SUVs and light trucks, which made more money per unit.
I'll NEVER buy an American car -- for these reasons, they are designed inside and out, top to bottom like the worst pieces of horse shit imaginable; the companies ran that planned obsolence agenda for decades before the Japanese started whuppin' that ass in the late 70s, and because when I was learning how to drive, Ford had just introduced the Taurus, and we owned one, and was constantly fucking up, looked chump and was a bitch just to sit in -- let alone handle. We had a 1980 Honda Accord, and then moved the Taurus station wagon, so I was used to being driven in a svlet car with nice creature comforts -- even for an inexpensive car, which the Accord was in those days.
The Big Three can suck shit out of a straw, because they have YET to learn how to design cars that are appealing. I wouldn't pay more than $8000 for ANY American made car. The manufacturing quality is suspect, so it might be up (per Ford's "quality is Job 1" campaign) or fucked like GM's entire line... yet by far the biggest problem is aesthetics. You can't name me 5 American cars over the past 20 years that can compete with even the basest of European or Japanese visual design. For whatever reason, Detroit focused on selling cars to the people in the focus groups who weren't looking for anything "fancy" -- fuck, get me some fancy ass car that looks like a Benz or a Ferrari or a Porsche!
The interiors are worse -- particularly the stock radio (anything made by AC Delco when it still had dominance was fuckshit, and you can quote me on that) -- even those secondary parts manufacturers weren't worth a fuck. I remember when I was a kid everyone wanted an Alpine indash stereo -- tell me, hard is it to swipe the basic design and change a few minor things, then sell it as as Delco? I mean the Japanese basically stole the Benz and BMW body designs when they hit the luxury car market, and yeah some people cried foul -- but the Japs made strides in that market segment and now practically own it!
You know what's going to happen? Nissan is going to team-up with GM or Ford, then raid the design vaults and reintroduce a bunch of cars that were hits, but with nouveau-retro designs and MAKE A KILLING! Imagine if yøu could have a 64 Impala that actually ran as good as a Toyota, had no engine trouble like a Honda
What kills me is why the American engineers HAVE NEVER been able to make quality engines the way Honda does? Especially when the Japanese effectively adopted the ideas of an American Automotive expert when determine how they'd reinvent their auto industry post WW2.
There's no excuse for the poor American mismanagement of its manufacturing base over the past few decades, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that industry is a slave to Wall Street's quarterly reporting requirements/demands. Sure, you need that check-n-balance, but the need to make corporate profits WITHOUT having a bad quarter, let alone a bad year, has become increasingly detrimental to all things American since the 1987 Stock Market Crash, which ushered in an unprecedented way and means to make outrageous sums of money via the stock market.
Also, we have to recall that the true spirit of American Industry was enabled by guess who? THE ROBBER BARONS -- the ruthless white men who raped and pillaged whenever they could to amass great fortunes that still hold sway over the American way of life over a 100 years later! God fucking damn!
Well, I'm working to set up shop in another country, as I can be around when America slips into the cesspool that it's been hiding for a couple decades now. And I WILL NOT raise children in this influx environment...
The people at DaimlerChrysler effectively admitted that its nearly impossible to make a profitable subcompact in the United States, and that China or another Asian country is where they'll have to outsource operations.
The big issue is that about a decade ago Detroit's Big failed to make teh major structural shift in its business operations -- mainly make cars that consumer actually want to buy -- and instead focused on making SUVs and light trucks, which made more money per unit.
I'll NEVER buy an American car -- for these reasons, they are designed inside and out, top to bottom like the worst pieces of horse shit imaginable; the companies ran that planned obsolence agenda for decades before the Japanese started whuppin' that ass in the late 70s, and because when I was learning how to drive, Ford had just introduced the Taurus, and we owned one, and was constantly fucking up, looked chump and was a bitch just to sit in -- let alone handle. We had a 1980 Honda Accord, and then moved the Taurus station wagon, so I was used to being driven in a svlet car with nice creature comforts -- even for an inexpensive car, which the Accord was in those days.
The Big Three can suck shit out of a straw, because they have YET to learn how to design cars that are appealing. I wouldn't pay more than $8000 for ANY American made car. The manufacturing quality is suspect, so it might be up (per Ford's "quality is Job 1" campaign) or fucked like GM's entire line... yet by far the biggest problem is aesthetics. You can't name me 5 American cars over the past 20 years that can compete with even the basest of European or Japanese visual design. For whatever reason, Detroit focused on selling cars to the people in the focus groups who weren't looking for anything "fancy" -- fuck, get me some fancy ass car that looks like a Benz or a Ferrari or a Porsche!
The interiors are worse -- particularly the stock radio (anything made by AC Delco when it still had dominance was fuckshit, and you can quote me on that) -- even those secondary parts manufacturers weren't worth a fuck. I remember when I was a kid everyone wanted an Alpine indash stereo -- tell me, hard is it to swipe the basic design and change a few minor things, then sell it as as Delco? I mean the Japanese basically stole the Benz and BMW body designs when they hit the luxury car market, and yeah some people cried foul -- but the Japs made strides in that market segment and now practically own it!
You know what's going to happen? Nissan is going to team-up with GM or Ford, then raid the design vaults and reintroduce a bunch of cars that were hits, but with nouveau-retro designs and MAKE A KILLING! Imagine if yøu could have a 64 Impala that actually ran as good as a Toyota, had no engine trouble like a Honda
What kills me is why the American engineers HAVE NEVER been able to make quality engines the way Honda does? Especially when the Japanese effectively adopted the ideas of an American Automotive expert when determine how they'd reinvent their auto industry post WW2.
There's no excuse for the poor American mismanagement of its manufacturing base over the past few decades, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that industry is a slave to Wall Street's quarterly reporting requirements/demands. Sure, you need that check-n-balance, but the need to make corporate profits WITHOUT having a bad quarter, let alone a bad year, has become increasingly detrimental to all things American since the 1987 Stock Market Crash, which ushered in an unprecedented way and means to make outrageous sums of money via the stock market.
Also, we have to recall that the true spirit of American Industry was enabled by guess who? THE ROBBER BARONS -- the ruthless white men who raped and pillaged whenever they could to amass great fortunes that still hold sway over the American way of life over a 100 years later! God fucking damn!
Well, I'm working to set up shop in another country, as I can be around when America slips into the cesspool that it's been hiding for a couple decades now. And I WILL NOT raise children in this influx environment...
Feature this -- how the sausage is made!!!
I was just thinking about my diet today (never a good thing in a country that celebrates obesity like IT was going out of style)... since I've been sleeping on cots and couches and on-the-ground-mattresses of late, my diet has gone to shit. It consists of too fuckin' much ready-made foodstuffs (i.e. fast food or out-the-box-in-the-microwave-food) and I'm wondering if my palette is all fucked up now in that I'll be yeaerning for this slopfood and find quality food to taste foreign and different. I know that filmmaker Spurlock did a flick called Supersize Me a couple years ago where he ate McDonald's for every meal for 30 days, and how it fucked with his body ecostatis -- best believe I'm in that same boat. Ironically, my body doesn't take on weight unless I'm lifting weights in the gym (something I haven't done in close to a year), and conversely a sit-on-my-ass lifestyle causes me to lose weight!!!
I know this is the case, because I was at a friend's for a bbq a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't eat the grilled hamburger that he prepared. Yet I was fiending for an In-n-Out Double Double on the way home... perhaps it's because my friend is white and white people tend to like their hamburger (all red meat in general actually) closer to being prepared like sushi... i.e., rare or extremely rare. You talk about medium or medium well and then look at you like you're fucking up a good piece of meat!
I know this is the case, because I was at a friend's for a bbq a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't eat the grilled hamburger that he prepared. Yet I was fiending for an In-n-Out Double Double on the way home... perhaps it's because my friend is white and white people tend to like their hamburger (all red meat in general actually) closer to being prepared like sushi... i.e., rare or extremely rare. You talk about medium or medium well and then look at you like you're fucking up a good piece of meat!
Friday, September 15, 2006
The Worst of White Women
So I'm talking with Girls Gone Wild producer today at the Car Wash (you know the one in Studio City with the big-ass hand) and he's telling me this recent video shot he worked on where he had 20 African American (which he dubbed "ebony") models have a naked fun-n-frolic pool party that culminated with a pie fight. He was saying that the whole thing was a little difficult because the previous three productions were done with white bitches (blondes, brunettes and a mixed bag), who had no problem doffing of their clothes and running around naked in this fat mansion that he rented.
Yet when it came to the Black girls, they all didn't want to get in the pool 'cause it was going to fuck with their hair (he had to bribe them $50 a piece just to get in the water). But once they got in, it was doper than dope.
Except for the owner's daughter. Obviously the big-ass crib was in Beverly Hills, and the young little, rich white hoe was following around after the Black girls demaning that they not sit any where as they would stain the furniture!!!
I said, "Hold up! You mean to tell me there are still white people who would actively claim that Black people 'stain' fabrics because they have pigment in their skin? The pigment ain't water soluable!!! FUCK!"
The white producer guy was so embarrassed for the white hoe!!! SHe should be slapped with a horse whip, then branded with a "I'ma bigoted beeyatch" on her flat white ass!
Are white bitches still afraid of Black bitch's sexuality that they have to degrade them mentally, just to maintain their "edge". If you're blonde and half way decent looking with perhaps fake tits, the world is yours on the platter -- the propaganda job designed to prop up these women to be the most sought after female on the planet is just ugly.
Otherwise, how would the broad above even get any props?
Yet when it came to the Black girls, they all didn't want to get in the pool 'cause it was going to fuck with their hair (he had to bribe them $50 a piece just to get in the water). But once they got in, it was doper than dope.
Except for the owner's daughter. Obviously the big-ass crib was in Beverly Hills, and the young little, rich white hoe was following around after the Black girls demaning that they not sit any where as they would stain the furniture!!!
I said, "Hold up! You mean to tell me there are still white people who would actively claim that Black people 'stain' fabrics because they have pigment in their skin? The pigment ain't water soluable!!! FUCK!"
The white producer guy was so embarrassed for the white hoe!!! SHe should be slapped with a horse whip, then branded with a "I'ma bigoted beeyatch" on her flat white ass!
Are white bitches still afraid of Black bitch's sexuality that they have to degrade them mentally, just to maintain their "edge". If you're blonde and half way decent looking with perhaps fake tits, the world is yours on the platter -- the propaganda job designed to prop up these women to be the most sought after female on the planet is just ugly.
Otherwise, how would the broad above even get any props?
Sunday, September 03, 2006
A Requim For Crescent City
Just finished watching Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke", his most recent HBO documetnary, and it perhaps is the most damning thing of the white elite that run this government in the Bush administration. Simply because the way the Feds mobilized for Iraq was like some crack force as personified in the movies, and the way the treated the niggas in New Orleans (all the white who got caught up in the aftermath are considered niggers, too, by the likes of Dubya and Mike Chertoff and Mikey Brown).
What's most gut-punching is all the home video footage Lee culled or the international news agency footage that was more hard-hitting that what the US media outlets opted to broadcast to the cowardly general public of the US... as if they know that Americans can't deal with a certain amount of reality, and the purpose of a lot of video news is to assuage potential fears and keep people under control.
Honestly, I don't think the US is the superpower that it wants the world to believe that it is. Everything that the US has touched since George H.W. Bush's invasion of Panama has been a major fuck-up... and guess what? That was the last major military action during the Cold War. It seems as if the US needed the Soviet Union to prove that it was better than something, somebody, anything.
After Bush's recent speaches to Congress demanding that the Geneva Convention be reinterpreted and that Gitmo be set-up as Judge-Jury-&-Execution spot, it makes me wonder what's going to happen to any US soldier or agent is hemmed up while out in the world... I don't think there have been any US POWs in Iraq (shit, they'd get their hands drilled by a Craftsman powertool while their balls are hooked up to a Honda generator, and that's before they have any questions asked of them!).
Spike's flick got me thinking about why Crescent City gets the short end of the stick... has to be because its a nigger city (like Detroit); there was something pointed out in the flick that tripped me out. Apparently, all the taxes and other potential revenue streams that come from the oil off Louisiana's coast don't go to the state or the city of New Orleans, but to Washington, DC and Texas (where the oil company's HQs are). Why the Fed fuck the state like that? Maybe now that the Lower 9th Ward had its ass handed to it, and the niggers are forced the fuck out, Big Business and Haliburtons are the country are going to take control of all that waterfront property.
Only time will tell.
I wonder if Ray Nagan is going to get re-elected after this current term is up. He was defiant to the last about what kind of ass-fucking the city WAS NOT going to take. He needs to be praised for dealing with some outrageousness on the level that no place outside of WWII era Japan and Germany have dealt with in the last few hundred years...
War Writings, Part Trois
Man, the heatwave in LA just won't fucking quit. Sweating buckets beneath a 405 overpass is not fun. At least I'm not having to ask people for money. I like hanging out under the 405 or a I-10 on-ramps, because I'm curious as to how people treat those who do ask for money, and what the response is after the beggar has been denied or gifted... either way, it's the same -- the beggar is nonplussed! If he gets a fifty-cent piece or gets ignored by a blonde bitch who thinks she's too pretty for the people around her. Only thing is, inside she's wondering what happens when her looks falter in the next 3 years.
Speaking of looks faltering in three years, I was searching through the Borders magazine section the other day for some ideas on what's going to be a good real estate investment, when I ran across the British version of GQ magazine (Christina Aguillera is on the cover). So I open it up -- no articles on how fucked up the Iraqi conflict is or how bad the UN is showing the pink of its ass by not knowing how to handle the Israeli war against the crazies in Hezballah. There's an interview with Paris Hilton about her first CD.
I glance through it, but my eyes stop on a line where she denies dancing on table tops. She corrects the interviewer with statements that she dances by whatever means necessary off the dancefloor because she hates sweaty bodies... to which the interviewer inquired why most American women have a problem with sweat. This hit home with me, because a lot of American women that I know have that same issue. It has to go back to their childhood, when their moms told them it was bad news for their pussy to sweat as it would stink like the rest of their bodies when sweating.
Of course, you have to wonder what's up with having sex if you don't like sweating? Best part of the interview was when the Interviewer asked Paris if she thought she was good in bed -- as he watched her famous sex tape right before the interview. I can imagine the look on her face! She claimed she hasn't fucked more than a couple of boyfriends -- yet, she sucks dick like working girl at the Chicken Ranch outside of Las Vegas.
It's hard to believe that when Paris was kicking it with Nicole Ritchie they were fucking fucking fucking day and night! Speaking of Nicole Ritchie, why the fuck is she so damn skinny? I find it doubly ironic that the one thing that plagues Western women who are rich so much is their weight! Does anyone know if there is a study or stats on how many poor women suffer from eating disorders? You'd think Nicole was hanging out with Black East Africans.
All the food at your disposal, and you choose not to eat... why not get disciplined and not the hoards of unhealthy poison that the American food industry wants us to eat, use Lionel's money to eat the best quality foods possible and take a trip to the Sudan's Darfur region and see what it means not to be able eat when and what you want -- anytime you feel the urge.
I'm serious about finding out how many non-whites suffer from eating disorders, particularly if those non-white chicks are part of the underclass. I bet it's one of those similar disproportionate figures like how many niggas constitute the prison population. I can't remember seeing any news story where Black girls where afraid of eating. Shit, Black girls love to eat -- they don't want to be fat, but they can rock it with pride if it does happen (I've spoken on this before, white women feel like failures if they're overweight by more than 30 pounds. Not so for women of color, they can be sexy with poundage).
Speaking of looks faltering in three years, I was searching through the Borders magazine section the other day for some ideas on what's going to be a good real estate investment, when I ran across the British version of GQ magazine (Christina Aguillera is on the cover). So I open it up -- no articles on how fucked up the Iraqi conflict is or how bad the UN is showing the pink of its ass by not knowing how to handle the Israeli war against the crazies in Hezballah. There's an interview with Paris Hilton about her first CD.
I glance through it, but my eyes stop on a line where she denies dancing on table tops. She corrects the interviewer with statements that she dances by whatever means necessary off the dancefloor because she hates sweaty bodies... to which the interviewer inquired why most American women have a problem with sweat. This hit home with me, because a lot of American women that I know have that same issue. It has to go back to their childhood, when their moms told them it was bad news for their pussy to sweat as it would stink like the rest of their bodies when sweating.
Of course, you have to wonder what's up with having sex if you don't like sweating? Best part of the interview was when the Interviewer asked Paris if she thought she was good in bed -- as he watched her famous sex tape right before the interview. I can imagine the look on her face! She claimed she hasn't fucked more than a couple of boyfriends -- yet, she sucks dick like working girl at the Chicken Ranch outside of Las Vegas.
It's hard to believe that when Paris was kicking it with Nicole Ritchie they were fucking fucking fucking day and night! Speaking of Nicole Ritchie, why the fuck is she so damn skinny? I find it doubly ironic that the one thing that plagues Western women who are rich so much is their weight! Does anyone know if there is a study or stats on how many poor women suffer from eating disorders? You'd think Nicole was hanging out with Black East Africans.
All the food at your disposal, and you choose not to eat... why not get disciplined and not the hoards of unhealthy poison that the American food industry wants us to eat, use Lionel's money to eat the best quality foods possible and take a trip to the Sudan's Darfur region and see what it means not to be able eat when and what you want -- anytime you feel the urge.
I'm serious about finding out how many non-whites suffer from eating disorders, particularly if those non-white chicks are part of the underclass. I bet it's one of those similar disproportionate figures like how many niggas constitute the prison population. I can't remember seeing any news story where Black girls where afraid of eating. Shit, Black girls love to eat -- they don't want to be fat, but they can rock it with pride if it does happen (I've spoken on this before, white women feel like failures if they're overweight by more than 30 pounds. Not so for women of color, they can be sexy with poundage).
Friday, August 25, 2006
50 year old Fuck Toy? I say YES
Women who travel for sex: Sun, sea and gigolos
The men are young, gorgeous and up for it. No wonder Western women see a Third World holiday as the gateway to casual sex - sometimes in exchange for cash. But as a new film highlights female sex tourism, Liz Hoggard asks who really pays the price.
The Independent on Sunday, Published: 09 July 2006
An attractive woman sips a cocktail under a bamboo shade. The sand is dazzlingly white, the sea aquamarine. A handsome young man approaches her and showers her with compliments: she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, he says. For the first time in years, she truly believes she is desirable.
But this holiday romance is not all it seems. The woman is white, in her late 50s; the man, black, 18 - and paid for his attentions. The scene - from the controversial new French film, Heading South, which opened this weekend, starring Charlotte Rampling, makes us confront uncomfortable truths about sexuality in a globalised world, and the legacy of colonialism.
In the film, an intelligent, provocative take on sex tourism in the late-1970s, Rampling plays Ellen, an American professor, who spends every summer at a private resort in Haiti, where beautiful, muscled black boys are available to the female clientele, mostly affluent single women in their forties, who despair of finding mates through more conventional means. "More than sex, they are seeking a tenderness that the world is refusing them," the film's director, Laurence Cantet, explains.
Fast-forward 30 years, and the reality of sex tourism is anything but tender. Today beach resorts in developing countries such as Kuta in Bali, Negril in Jamaica and Boca Chica and Sosua in the Dominican Republic have become Third World pick-up spots for women tourists. Tour companies even market package deals as sex holidays for single and unaccompanied women. Forget Shirley Valentine, these women - who range from grandmothers to teens - don't want a long-term relationship. And there's plenty of live flesh on sale.
Take Jamaica, where 17 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. Hustling on the beach is the only way that some young men can feed themselves and their families. No wonder they choose older women who pay better than younger ones. InNegril, the men can earn $100 (£60) for sex with a female tourist, £90 for oral sex, which Jamaican men usually regard as taboo. Many others are hired as a guide to the island and throw in sexual services, often just for as meal or a place to sleep.
The definition of a sex tourist is an adult who travels in order to have legal consensual sexual relations with another adult, often for the exchange of money or presents. We still assume that a sex tourist will be male - indeed many regard the relationship between beach boy and female tourist as harmless fun. The woman gets guilt-free sex while keeping a firm hold on the purse strings. Where's the harm?
Jane, 67, a divorcee, has spent the past 10 years holidaying in West Africa. She loves the climate and the people - and she especially loves the men. "They are so wonderfully flattering. They make you feel like a real women. I don't mind paying for their drinks and meals if they stay the night." Divorced, with two grown-up sons, she explains, "White men my own age are so set in their ways; they just want another wife."
For others, this is exploitation pure and simple. Even where no money is exchanged, this sort of behaviour destabilises local communities and families. Ignorance and lack of concern about the abject poverty and lack of choice that characterises the men's lives leads the women to romanticise their actions. It is true that women sex tourists are still outnumbered by the legions of men who travel to Thailand and the Philippines for sex with prostitutes. Charities such as Amnesty and Unicef have no official policy on female sex tourism, preferring to focus on protecting trafficked women and children. Chris Beddoe, director of Ecpat UK, the children's rights organisation that campaigns against child sex tourism, believes: "If both adult partners are open and honest about what they're getting out of it, that's one thing. But it's another thing to continue the fantasy when there's a denial of the power that money brings to that relationship that creates a culture of dependency and exploitation.'
Nirpal Dhaliwal, author of the recent novel, Tourism (which satirises older white women turned on by young brown flesh), takes a tougher view. "Women enjoy casual sex and prostitution, too, but with far more hypocrisy. They help themselves to men in the developing world, kidding themselves that it's a 'holiday romance' that has nothing to do with the money they spend. Go to any Jamaican beach and you'll find handsome 'rent-a-dreads', who get by servicing Western women - lots from Britain. I've seen similar things in Goa."
Next month a new play, Sugar Mummies, about the pleasures and perils of sex tourism opens at London's Royal Court Theatre. Set in the Jamaican beach resort of Negril, it centres on a group of British and American women, seeking sun sea, sand ... and uninhibited sex with a handsome stranger. Sexually frank and often very funny, the play doesn't pull its punches. The playwright, Tanika Gupta, travelled to Jamaica to research the subject first-hand, and says she was shocked to find how female tourists objectify the black male body. "A lot of women talk about how 'big' black men are and how they can go all night. It becomes such a myth that even the men now use it. There is this terrible mutual delusion going on. And you do find yourself thinking, 'We're not a million miles from slavery.'" The older female tourists even confided to Gupta that although Jamaica was lovely and laid-back, the Dominican Republic and Cuba were "dirt cheap". "You can go as young as you want in Cuba," one woman boasted.
For all the talk of romance, the language of sex tourism is pretty basic. In Jamaica the men are called "beach boys" or "Rastatutes". The women are called milk bottles by the men - partly because of their ultra-white skin, partly because they are seen as vessels waiting to be filled.
Another myth the play explodes is that sex tourism is only perpetrated by white women. In Jamaica, Gupta met many black American women hiring beach boys. "They might be going back to their roots, or feeling more powerful because they had money, but they were still buying the same services."
In Bali, South-east Asia, Beddoes encountered wealthy Japanese women paying local boys for sex. The boys themselves claimed they found it less degrading because they saw the Japanese women as smaller and more childlike.
Gupta was inspired to write Sugar Mummies after reading the research by UK sociologists, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor and Julia O'Connell into female sex tourism in the Caribbean. They decided to carry out their own research when they found that the usual analysis of sex tourism does not consider women as buyers of sexual services, because prostitute-users is seen as, by definition, male.
They interviewed 240 women holidaying in Negril, and two similar resorts in the Dominican Republic. Almost a third said they had engaged in sexual relationships with local men. Though 60 per cent admitted to certain "economic elements" to their liaisons, they did not perceive their sexual encounters as a prostitute-client transaction. Instead they insisted they were helping the men, and the local economy, by giving them money and gifts. When asked to describe "boyfriends", most emphasised how for them black Jamaican men possessed bodies of great sexual value. One 42 year-old English woman who travelled at least three times a year to Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic said: "I'm not naïve. I've been around the block. I come for sex - of course the sun, but mostly the sex. I'm not coming to live and set up house with a guy. I just want some fun and good sex."
"Female sex tourism is much more informal," says Sanchez Taylor, a lecturer in sociology at Leeds University. "It takes place in bars. There's no way for women to go into a brothel and say, 'I want a blow job.'
"Women who feel rejected by men in the West for being fatter and older -you know, 35, but they look 40 - find that in Jamaica all this is reversed," says Sanchez Taylor.
"There's a poetic lyricism to the gigolo's chat-up lines," agrees Gupta. "You very quickly understand why the women are buying this. On the first day, this baby aged 18 came to chat me up. At first I thought, this will be good for my play. But then he got a bit fast, so I suggested he move on to some younger women, And he said, 'Me no want the kitten, me want the cat.'"
The problem comes, she says, when the women start believing the men they have hooked up with are in love with them. "They confuse what is actually a financial transaction with real love. If you have low self-esteem, if you've not had much luck, if you're older ... you are likely to be more susceptible," says Gupta.
Some women even marry their boyfriends and take them home to the UK, although few relationships survive the cultural difference. Jamica's most famous holiday romance has recently come crashing down. Female tourism boomed after Terry McMillan's hit novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back was made into a Hollywood film. The novel, in which Stella, a divorced black woman in her forties, takes a holiday to Jamaica, where she meets and falls in love with Winston, a local man half her age - was a fictionalised account of McMillan's own marriage to Jeremy Plummer, 23 years her junior. This year, McMillan, 53, filed for divorce, claiming that the marriage was based on a "fraud'' because Plummer lied about his sexual orientation and married her only to gain US citizenship. He denies it.
It is a nasty twist that the countries where this sort of tourism is most rife are ex-slave colonies. Many are still dealing with the fallout of colonialism. All the hotels, restaurants, cars and glass-bottomed boats in Negril are owned by Americans. The urban economy doesn't even belong to the local people.
Yet the women who sleep with the beach boys insist they are helping race relations. They flatter themselves they have gone native. "In my play there's a scene where a white woman is taking about how she loves R&B and reggae and what she calls hip and hop," says Gupta.
It is the female tourist who books the flights and determines the length of time she will spend with their boyfriend, as well as making day-to-day decisions when they are together, such as when and where they eat. One 21-year-old migrant from Haiti who had been working in Sosua, told Sanchez Taylor that he even had to "snog" his tourist client despite a bad toothache and a swollen face. If he did not, he would not be able to afford the antibiotics to cure it.
In Sugar Mummies, Gupta deliberately allows herself one relationship that might just work. "I'm not saying anything about mixed race relationships, I'm talking about these specific kinds of sex-tourist relationships where women go out there specifically to have sex. It will probably backfire and a whole load more women will go off to Jamaica."
'Sugar Mummies' opens at the Royal Court, London SW1 on 5 August (020-7565 5000)
No strings: 'I wanted to do sex like a man'
Lucy, a 23-year-old events organiser from London, visited St Lucia this year with a friend
The words "sex tourism" make me think of City boys who go to Thailand with their mates for seedy conquests to boast about. It's different for women. When they go abroad for sex, it's about wanting to feel special and escaping the boundaries at home.
My friend and I decided to treat ourselves to a stay in a luxury hotel in St Lucia for 10 days of pure pampering - and ideally a sexual encounter. This was the first time I'd gone on holiday explicitly with this intention. I was keen to find a St Lucian man as I'd heard they were very well endowed. I had my eye on Sandi from my first day. He was a local working in the cocktail bar, in his early thirties, and was very handsome, muscular and toned with the perfect six-pack. We spent several evenings drinking, chatting and flirting in the bar.
There are very strict rules at the hotel about staff and guests so I knew I had to make the first move. I told him I was going for a walk on the beach - and we spent our first night together. It was very romantic.
This was totally different from how I'd behave at home. In London, taking a man home with you, there's always the fear that friends might see you, not to mention potential dangers or the hassle of waking up in your flat with a stranger. But on holiday the boundaries shift and you can behave totally differently. You have a tan, you feel gorgeous, you're treated like royalty - and everything is available and easy.
Sandi and I had a great time. On his day off, he took us to a local street party. I paid for taxis, drinks and food. We needed his protection because St Lucian men had certain misconceptions about white women - although I probably wasn't helping.
When it came to leaving, I surprised myself by feeling quite gutted. I'd wanted to do sex without feelings, just like the men, but there was a definite trembling of the lips - for both of us. But as we flew home, my friend and I were very pleased with everything that had happened. I'm in a relationship at the moment but if I was single again I'd definitely go on that kind of holiday. Why not?
Around one in five British holidaymakers under the age of 25 is failing to practise safe sex while abroad, according to a study published this month by Trojan Condoms.
The men are young, gorgeous and up for it. No wonder Western women see a Third World holiday as the gateway to casual sex - sometimes in exchange for cash. But as a new film highlights female sex tourism, Liz Hoggard asks who really pays the price.
The Independent on Sunday, Published: 09 July 2006
An attractive woman sips a cocktail under a bamboo shade. The sand is dazzlingly white, the sea aquamarine. A handsome young man approaches her and showers her with compliments: she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, he says. For the first time in years, she truly believes she is desirable.
But this holiday romance is not all it seems. The woman is white, in her late 50s; the man, black, 18 - and paid for his attentions. The scene - from the controversial new French film, Heading South, which opened this weekend, starring Charlotte Rampling, makes us confront uncomfortable truths about sexuality in a globalised world, and the legacy of colonialism.
In the film, an intelligent, provocative take on sex tourism in the late-1970s, Rampling plays Ellen, an American professor, who spends every summer at a private resort in Haiti, where beautiful, muscled black boys are available to the female clientele, mostly affluent single women in their forties, who despair of finding mates through more conventional means. "More than sex, they are seeking a tenderness that the world is refusing them," the film's director, Laurence Cantet, explains.
Fast-forward 30 years, and the reality of sex tourism is anything but tender. Today beach resorts in developing countries such as Kuta in Bali, Negril in Jamaica and Boca Chica and Sosua in the Dominican Republic have become Third World pick-up spots for women tourists. Tour companies even market package deals as sex holidays for single and unaccompanied women. Forget Shirley Valentine, these women - who range from grandmothers to teens - don't want a long-term relationship. And there's plenty of live flesh on sale.
Take Jamaica, where 17 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. Hustling on the beach is the only way that some young men can feed themselves and their families. No wonder they choose older women who pay better than younger ones. InNegril, the men can earn $100 (£60) for sex with a female tourist, £90 for oral sex, which Jamaican men usually regard as taboo. Many others are hired as a guide to the island and throw in sexual services, often just for as meal or a place to sleep.
The definition of a sex tourist is an adult who travels in order to have legal consensual sexual relations with another adult, often for the exchange of money or presents. We still assume that a sex tourist will be male - indeed many regard the relationship between beach boy and female tourist as harmless fun. The woman gets guilt-free sex while keeping a firm hold on the purse strings. Where's the harm?
Jane, 67, a divorcee, has spent the past 10 years holidaying in West Africa. She loves the climate and the people - and she especially loves the men. "They are so wonderfully flattering. They make you feel like a real women. I don't mind paying for their drinks and meals if they stay the night." Divorced, with two grown-up sons, she explains, "White men my own age are so set in their ways; they just want another wife."
For others, this is exploitation pure and simple. Even where no money is exchanged, this sort of behaviour destabilises local communities and families. Ignorance and lack of concern about the abject poverty and lack of choice that characterises the men's lives leads the women to romanticise their actions. It is true that women sex tourists are still outnumbered by the legions of men who travel to Thailand and the Philippines for sex with prostitutes. Charities such as Amnesty and Unicef have no official policy on female sex tourism, preferring to focus on protecting trafficked women and children. Chris Beddoe, director of Ecpat UK, the children's rights organisation that campaigns against child sex tourism, believes: "If both adult partners are open and honest about what they're getting out of it, that's one thing. But it's another thing to continue the fantasy when there's a denial of the power that money brings to that relationship that creates a culture of dependency and exploitation.'
Nirpal Dhaliwal, author of the recent novel, Tourism (which satirises older white women turned on by young brown flesh), takes a tougher view. "Women enjoy casual sex and prostitution, too, but with far more hypocrisy. They help themselves to men in the developing world, kidding themselves that it's a 'holiday romance' that has nothing to do with the money they spend. Go to any Jamaican beach and you'll find handsome 'rent-a-dreads', who get by servicing Western women - lots from Britain. I've seen similar things in Goa."
Next month a new play, Sugar Mummies, about the pleasures and perils of sex tourism opens at London's Royal Court Theatre. Set in the Jamaican beach resort of Negril, it centres on a group of British and American women, seeking sun sea, sand ... and uninhibited sex with a handsome stranger. Sexually frank and often very funny, the play doesn't pull its punches. The playwright, Tanika Gupta, travelled to Jamaica to research the subject first-hand, and says she was shocked to find how female tourists objectify the black male body. "A lot of women talk about how 'big' black men are and how they can go all night. It becomes such a myth that even the men now use it. There is this terrible mutual delusion going on. And you do find yourself thinking, 'We're not a million miles from slavery.'" The older female tourists even confided to Gupta that although Jamaica was lovely and laid-back, the Dominican Republic and Cuba were "dirt cheap". "You can go as young as you want in Cuba," one woman boasted.
For all the talk of romance, the language of sex tourism is pretty basic. In Jamaica the men are called "beach boys" or "Rastatutes". The women are called milk bottles by the men - partly because of their ultra-white skin, partly because they are seen as vessels waiting to be filled.
Another myth the play explodes is that sex tourism is only perpetrated by white women. In Jamaica, Gupta met many black American women hiring beach boys. "They might be going back to their roots, or feeling more powerful because they had money, but they were still buying the same services."
In Bali, South-east Asia, Beddoes encountered wealthy Japanese women paying local boys for sex. The boys themselves claimed they found it less degrading because they saw the Japanese women as smaller and more childlike.
Gupta was inspired to write Sugar Mummies after reading the research by UK sociologists, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor and Julia O'Connell into female sex tourism in the Caribbean. They decided to carry out their own research when they found that the usual analysis of sex tourism does not consider women as buyers of sexual services, because prostitute-users is seen as, by definition, male.
They interviewed 240 women holidaying in Negril, and two similar resorts in the Dominican Republic. Almost a third said they had engaged in sexual relationships with local men. Though 60 per cent admitted to certain "economic elements" to their liaisons, they did not perceive their sexual encounters as a prostitute-client transaction. Instead they insisted they were helping the men, and the local economy, by giving them money and gifts. When asked to describe "boyfriends", most emphasised how for them black Jamaican men possessed bodies of great sexual value. One 42 year-old English woman who travelled at least three times a year to Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic said: "I'm not naïve. I've been around the block. I come for sex - of course the sun, but mostly the sex. I'm not coming to live and set up house with a guy. I just want some fun and good sex."
"Female sex tourism is much more informal," says Sanchez Taylor, a lecturer in sociology at Leeds University. "It takes place in bars. There's no way for women to go into a brothel and say, 'I want a blow job.'
"Women who feel rejected by men in the West for being fatter and older -you know, 35, but they look 40 - find that in Jamaica all this is reversed," says Sanchez Taylor.
"There's a poetic lyricism to the gigolo's chat-up lines," agrees Gupta. "You very quickly understand why the women are buying this. On the first day, this baby aged 18 came to chat me up. At first I thought, this will be good for my play. But then he got a bit fast, so I suggested he move on to some younger women, And he said, 'Me no want the kitten, me want the cat.'"
The problem comes, she says, when the women start believing the men they have hooked up with are in love with them. "They confuse what is actually a financial transaction with real love. If you have low self-esteem, if you've not had much luck, if you're older ... you are likely to be more susceptible," says Gupta.
Some women even marry their boyfriends and take them home to the UK, although few relationships survive the cultural difference. Jamica's most famous holiday romance has recently come crashing down. Female tourism boomed after Terry McMillan's hit novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back was made into a Hollywood film. The novel, in which Stella, a divorced black woman in her forties, takes a holiday to Jamaica, where she meets and falls in love with Winston, a local man half her age - was a fictionalised account of McMillan's own marriage to Jeremy Plummer, 23 years her junior. This year, McMillan, 53, filed for divorce, claiming that the marriage was based on a "fraud'' because Plummer lied about his sexual orientation and married her only to gain US citizenship. He denies it.
It is a nasty twist that the countries where this sort of tourism is most rife are ex-slave colonies. Many are still dealing with the fallout of colonialism. All the hotels, restaurants, cars and glass-bottomed boats in Negril are owned by Americans. The urban economy doesn't even belong to the local people.
Yet the women who sleep with the beach boys insist they are helping race relations. They flatter themselves they have gone native. "In my play there's a scene where a white woman is taking about how she loves R&B and reggae and what she calls hip and hop," says Gupta.
It is the female tourist who books the flights and determines the length of time she will spend with their boyfriend, as well as making day-to-day decisions when they are together, such as when and where they eat. One 21-year-old migrant from Haiti who had been working in Sosua, told Sanchez Taylor that he even had to "snog" his tourist client despite a bad toothache and a swollen face. If he did not, he would not be able to afford the antibiotics to cure it.
In Sugar Mummies, Gupta deliberately allows herself one relationship that might just work. "I'm not saying anything about mixed race relationships, I'm talking about these specific kinds of sex-tourist relationships where women go out there specifically to have sex. It will probably backfire and a whole load more women will go off to Jamaica."
'Sugar Mummies' opens at the Royal Court, London SW1 on 5 August (020-7565 5000)
No strings: 'I wanted to do sex like a man'
Lucy, a 23-year-old events organiser from London, visited St Lucia this year with a friend
The words "sex tourism" make me think of City boys who go to Thailand with their mates for seedy conquests to boast about. It's different for women. When they go abroad for sex, it's about wanting to feel special and escaping the boundaries at home.
My friend and I decided to treat ourselves to a stay in a luxury hotel in St Lucia for 10 days of pure pampering - and ideally a sexual encounter. This was the first time I'd gone on holiday explicitly with this intention. I was keen to find a St Lucian man as I'd heard they were very well endowed. I had my eye on Sandi from my first day. He was a local working in the cocktail bar, in his early thirties, and was very handsome, muscular and toned with the perfect six-pack. We spent several evenings drinking, chatting and flirting in the bar.
There are very strict rules at the hotel about staff and guests so I knew I had to make the first move. I told him I was going for a walk on the beach - and we spent our first night together. It was very romantic.
This was totally different from how I'd behave at home. In London, taking a man home with you, there's always the fear that friends might see you, not to mention potential dangers or the hassle of waking up in your flat with a stranger. But on holiday the boundaries shift and you can behave totally differently. You have a tan, you feel gorgeous, you're treated like royalty - and everything is available and easy.
Sandi and I had a great time. On his day off, he took us to a local street party. I paid for taxis, drinks and food. We needed his protection because St Lucian men had certain misconceptions about white women - although I probably wasn't helping.
When it came to leaving, I surprised myself by feeling quite gutted. I'd wanted to do sex without feelings, just like the men, but there was a definite trembling of the lips - for both of us. But as we flew home, my friend and I were very pleased with everything that had happened. I'm in a relationship at the moment but if I was single again I'd definitely go on that kind of holiday. Why not?
Around one in five British holidaymakers under the age of 25 is failing to practise safe sex while abroad, according to a study published this month by Trojan Condoms.
Bigots R Us!
I read about this on the BBC website --
The 20 “castaways” in the 13th season of CBS' Survivor will be divided according to their ethnicity. The contestants will be segregated into four “tribes” of blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos when the hit CBS programme returns on 14 September…
-- and people thought I've been out of my mind keeping this (and the previous) blog, that racism, racial strife, and ethnoxenophobia is still in FULL effect in Amerikkka.
CBS is completely reckless and socially irresponsible to sanction this kind of competition, because it's going to certainly justify certain racial/ethnic stereotypes about cunning, shrewdness, physical attributes and "get-along-ability." The contestants were smart, they'd work the white people off the Island first (I wonder what happens to the ratings when that happens... like the CBS/Survivor brass would allow that), then have the various ethnic groups go at it.
The 20 “castaways” in the 13th season of CBS' Survivor will be divided according to their ethnicity. The contestants will be segregated into four “tribes” of blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos when the hit CBS programme returns on 14 September…
-- and people thought I've been out of my mind keeping this (and the previous) blog, that racism, racial strife, and ethnoxenophobia is still in FULL effect in Amerikkka.
CBS is completely reckless and socially irresponsible to sanction this kind of competition, because it's going to certainly justify certain racial/ethnic stereotypes about cunning, shrewdness, physical attributes and "get-along-ability." The contestants were smart, they'd work the white people off the Island first (I wonder what happens to the ratings when that happens... like the CBS/Survivor brass would allow that), then have the various ethnic groups go at it.
War Writings, Part Deux
Ah... the LA Heatwave is still in effect. Nuthin' sucks worse than walkin by the on-ramp to the 405 and the cars zip by blastin you with a wave of hot air.
The heat makes you think, what's up with clean water? 'Cause you need so much to stay hydrated, and then more to be cool. Or maybe you just need to get to a ice cooler at the local 7-11, where a lot of beggars hang out.
Speaking of ice coolers, I was reading an article in Rolling Stone about the sectarian violence in Iraq, and the author was saying that Sunnis were killing Shi'ites (or maybe it was the other way around, I don't give a fuck, they's all the same to me) because they were using an ice machine.
Ice Machines!?! A potential messiah for desert folk, but since ice machines weren't around when Mohammad was toolin around the use of one marks you as an infidel-defiler that needs to be bucked down -- with a 7.62mm bullet bursting out of a -- you guessed it! An AK-47! Like those were around during the time of Mohammed. I don't even think gunpowder was discovered yet, so the "time honored tradition" of celebrating by firing a AK-47 into the air is another reason why the Arabs just pervert Islam. Or maybe their culture is just backward-ass?
Ya think? See what Islam needs is a Reformation -- the same way that Christianity and Judeaism had, so the religions could go with the flow of increasingly modern times. I mean, where's the Arabic martin luther? Slain as a child, or given over to twisted jailers to torture and maim, so an example can be set -- Imams and Ayatollahs don't tolerate people who want to shake up the power structure!
The war zone that's kicking the US's ass in Iraq, should be allowed to enter Civil War status. Let them fools kill each other off to the point, that it can be a clean sweep for the US Troops to mop up the surviving militias and insurgents. Plus, all the money that's being spent over there could be being spent on a new energy sources, or at least to build out more solar energy collectors.
Well, more news from the front when I can get back to the library again.
I wonder if Arab snipers is mad 'cause G.I. Joe's cruise around Baghdad with iPods blasting out beats by Tupac? You know the thing about not having any money for such a long time, and then eventually going homeless is that you don't get to have these little consumer goods that seem cool, and get a lot of pub in the media -- like a Blackberry or an iPod or a GPS in your car. I'm goin to have one of those installed in my car next time I have a garage to park my vehicle in.
The heat makes you think, what's up with clean water? 'Cause you need so much to stay hydrated, and then more to be cool. Or maybe you just need to get to a ice cooler at the local 7-11, where a lot of beggars hang out.
Speaking of ice coolers, I was reading an article in Rolling Stone about the sectarian violence in Iraq, and the author was saying that Sunnis were killing Shi'ites (or maybe it was the other way around, I don't give a fuck, they's all the same to me) because they were using an ice machine.
Ice Machines!?! A potential messiah for desert folk, but since ice machines weren't around when Mohammad was toolin around the use of one marks you as an infidel-defiler that needs to be bucked down -- with a 7.62mm bullet bursting out of a -- you guessed it! An AK-47! Like those were around during the time of Mohammed. I don't even think gunpowder was discovered yet, so the "time honored tradition" of celebrating by firing a AK-47 into the air is another reason why the Arabs just pervert Islam. Or maybe their culture is just backward-ass?
Ya think? See what Islam needs is a Reformation -- the same way that Christianity and Judeaism had, so the religions could go with the flow of increasingly modern times. I mean, where's the Arabic martin luther? Slain as a child, or given over to twisted jailers to torture and maim, so an example can be set -- Imams and Ayatollahs don't tolerate people who want to shake up the power structure!
The war zone that's kicking the US's ass in Iraq, should be allowed to enter Civil War status. Let them fools kill each other off to the point, that it can be a clean sweep for the US Troops to mop up the surviving militias and insurgents. Plus, all the money that's being spent over there could be being spent on a new energy sources, or at least to build out more solar energy collectors.
Well, more news from the front when I can get back to the library again.
I wonder if Arab snipers is mad 'cause G.I. Joe's cruise around Baghdad with iPods blasting out beats by Tupac? You know the thing about not having any money for such a long time, and then eventually going homeless is that you don't get to have these little consumer goods that seem cool, and get a lot of pub in the media -- like a Blackberry or an iPod or a GPS in your car. I'm goin to have one of those installed in my car next time I have a garage to park my vehicle in.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
War Writings
So it's been forever (in the technosphere that is) since I've posted, and that's mainly because I've been homeless since April and it's finally getting to me. Living hand-to-mouth, and sleeping on couches or in my car, and showering at the gym (gotta love that cheap Bally's membership I acquired years back), and washing my clothes whenever I can collect enough soda cans to recycle and get some cash back (at least I'm doing my part for the environment -- recycling is the next best thing to getting the fuck off of fossil fuels).
To entertain myself, I've been reading a lot of TIME magazine, Rolling Stone and Business Week... and James Ellroy's AMERICAN TABLOID (jesus christ, what a twisted, engrossing, stylistically insane book but probably the most illuminating fiction on how white people in the late 50s and earlyl 60s viewed Blacks and Hispanics (in the form of Cubans).
TIME and Rolling Stone have been covering the Debacle In Iraq with some fascinating reportage -- case in point last week's TIME had this article called Baghdad Diary, and man was it fucking interesting. The opening info about just how you have to be part of the lunatic fringe just to enter the Iraqi capital by air will make you rethink whatever you previously thought about the country-wide conflagration.
See the thing about this war -- what makes it most odd, fucked-up and out of control is that we live in a world where information, documentation, and transmission travels Gigahertz speeds, and yet the truth at the center of this conflict seems to be escaping just about every goddamn person on the planet. Why is Shi'a really fighting against Sunni, and how in the hell did Saddam -- a Sunni -- get to run rampant over the overwhelming Shi'a majority. How weak are those people? You have to be the worst cunt-laping faggot not to be able to express your differences without resorting unapologetic mass murder.
Otherwise a solution could be proffered -- whether it's Sectarian violence or al-Qaeda still trippin' or the "time-to-settle-old-score" fuckers, the violence in tha part of the world is never ending. I think they would have been better off, if Hussein was still in power or if he was assassinated. Full-scale invasion for reigme change just doesn't seem to work. When it happened in Germany, the country was split in two - Japan survived any kind of obscene breakdown of civil order because the country is so homogenous. Israel invade Lebanon in 82 and the Palestinian terrorities earlier and what in God's name transpired there? The entire world is fed shit on a stick, because of that continued conflict.
With all the IEDs and sniping and milita murder marches Iraq seems to be doing okay in Kurdistan. Yeah, that little corner in the North that the US had no-fly zones since the end of the first Gulf War. The Kurds have got their shit together, and they're dealing with the BOOLSHIT to the South as best as they can. I don't know if the Kurds are Muslim Arabs or even Arabs, but I don't think have the same inexplicable cultural issues as the rest of Muslim world. Why is the Shi'a vs Sunni debate still such an issue that has to express itself with such violence after multiple centuries. It's like if the Protestants and the Catholics were still waging unspeakable crimes against each other four CENTURIES after Martin Luther! [if you don't know -- and I don't know all the details or facts -- the issue between Sunni and Shi'a has something to do with who is the true inheritor of Muhammud's legacy. Who really gives two-tugs on a dead dogs dick?]
I don't think Arabs are interpreting Islam correctly at all! I really don't. And I don't give a fuck if is "their religion" -- it's supposed to be a system of tolerance and forgiveness.
Arabs trip me the fuck out, 'cause the guy in the TIME article was saying that pumping rounds into the stratosphere from an AK-47 is a time-honored Arab traditional sign of celebration... uh, the AK has only been around for sixty some years -- if you can pick up such and absurd-ass tradition, then you can figure the fuck out what's the deal with the Shi'a/Sunni clash.
It was written somewhere the the Debacle in Iraq is and will be the worst possible foreign policy mistake that United States will ever make -- short of using a nuclear weapon in Mexico to keep immigrants from coming across the Rio Grande!
I bet in five years the fighting is still going on. I bet in five years there would have been some sort of awful civil war in Iraq that tears the country into four or five punk-ass little city-states in the Babylonian desert. I bet in five years, American troops will still be dying for the sand-niggers who don't want them there in the first place. I bet in five years the Western world will have achieve a strong level of Green energy sourcing and other alternatives to fossil fuel that the supreme fuck-shit those goes on with these bitch-meat Arabs, that the Middle East won't mean shit to world energy prices. I bet in five years, Arab terrorist will destroy a few more US airplanes. I bet in five years Osama bin Laden will still be issuing video tapes (eventhough everyone else will have switched over to completely non-moving parts image acquisition) in caves in Tora Bora, and be thumbing his nose at the US.
I bet in five years, this blog will still exist. Only I won't be writing it!
To entertain myself, I've been reading a lot of TIME magazine, Rolling Stone and Business Week... and James Ellroy's AMERICAN TABLOID (jesus christ, what a twisted, engrossing, stylistically insane book but probably the most illuminating fiction on how white people in the late 50s and earlyl 60s viewed Blacks and Hispanics (in the form of Cubans).
TIME and Rolling Stone have been covering the Debacle In Iraq with some fascinating reportage -- case in point last week's TIME had this article called Baghdad Diary, and man was it fucking interesting. The opening info about just how you have to be part of the lunatic fringe just to enter the Iraqi capital by air will make you rethink whatever you previously thought about the country-wide conflagration.
See the thing about this war -- what makes it most odd, fucked-up and out of control is that we live in a world where information, documentation, and transmission travels Gigahertz speeds, and yet the truth at the center of this conflict seems to be escaping just about every goddamn person on the planet. Why is Shi'a really fighting against Sunni, and how in the hell did Saddam -- a Sunni -- get to run rampant over the overwhelming Shi'a majority. How weak are those people? You have to be the worst cunt-laping faggot not to be able to express your differences without resorting unapologetic mass murder.
Otherwise a solution could be proffered -- whether it's Sectarian violence or al-Qaeda still trippin' or the "time-to-settle-old-score" fuckers, the violence in tha part of the world is never ending. I think they would have been better off, if Hussein was still in power or if he was assassinated. Full-scale invasion for reigme change just doesn't seem to work. When it happened in Germany, the country was split in two - Japan survived any kind of obscene breakdown of civil order because the country is so homogenous. Israel invade Lebanon in 82 and the Palestinian terrorities earlier and what in God's name transpired there? The entire world is fed shit on a stick, because of that continued conflict.
With all the IEDs and sniping and milita murder marches Iraq seems to be doing okay in Kurdistan. Yeah, that little corner in the North that the US had no-fly zones since the end of the first Gulf War. The Kurds have got their shit together, and they're dealing with the BOOLSHIT to the South as best as they can. I don't know if the Kurds are Muslim Arabs or even Arabs, but I don't think have the same inexplicable cultural issues as the rest of Muslim world. Why is the Shi'a vs Sunni debate still such an issue that has to express itself with such violence after multiple centuries. It's like if the Protestants and the Catholics were still waging unspeakable crimes against each other four CENTURIES after Martin Luther! [if you don't know -- and I don't know all the details or facts -- the issue between Sunni and Shi'a has something to do with who is the true inheritor of Muhammud's legacy. Who really gives two-tugs on a dead dogs dick?]
I don't think Arabs are interpreting Islam correctly at all! I really don't. And I don't give a fuck if is "their religion" -- it's supposed to be a system of tolerance and forgiveness.
Arabs trip me the fuck out, 'cause the guy in the TIME article was saying that pumping rounds into the stratosphere from an AK-47 is a time-honored Arab traditional sign of celebration... uh, the AK has only been around for sixty some years -- if you can pick up such and absurd-ass tradition, then you can figure the fuck out what's the deal with the Shi'a/Sunni clash.
It was written somewhere the the Debacle in Iraq is and will be the worst possible foreign policy mistake that United States will ever make -- short of using a nuclear weapon in Mexico to keep immigrants from coming across the Rio Grande!
I bet in five years the fighting is still going on. I bet in five years there would have been some sort of awful civil war in Iraq that tears the country into four or five punk-ass little city-states in the Babylonian desert. I bet in five years, American troops will still be dying for the sand-niggers who don't want them there in the first place. I bet in five years the Western world will have achieve a strong level of Green energy sourcing and other alternatives to fossil fuel that the supreme fuck-shit those goes on with these bitch-meat Arabs, that the Middle East won't mean shit to world energy prices. I bet in five years, Arab terrorist will destroy a few more US airplanes. I bet in five years Osama bin Laden will still be issuing video tapes (eventhough everyone else will have switched over to completely non-moving parts image acquisition) in caves in Tora Bora, and be thumbing his nose at the US.
I bet in five years, this blog will still exist. Only I won't be writing it!
Thursday, August 03, 2006
F-- A Confidential Source
In today's NYTimes there is an article (reprinted below) about how Federal Prosecutors have won the right to inspect the telephone records to two NYTimes reporters to suss out their confidential sources.
This is just another reason why the GOP were depicted on the cover of TIME a few weeks back as an elephant showing its ASS! 'Cause these people want to be crusaders in the "name" of Patriotism but at the EXPENSE of so-called American Ideals.
Buncha bitches! As Gza from The Wu-Tang Clan has often said, most notably in the Dave Chappelle skit "Wu-Tang Financial"
Have you ever listened to this group called ANTIBALAS, they're a New York City-based Afrobeat group, and they're always talking about WWIV -- and how CNN and Fox News chose not to cover this war, as it took place on the Dark Continent.
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: August 2, 2006
A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday.
The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic to claims that journalists should be entitled to protect their sources, reversed a lower court and dealt a further setback to news organizations, which have lately been on a losing streak in the federal courts.
The dissenting judge said that the government had failed to demonstrate it truly needed the records and that efforts to obtain reporters’ phone records could alter the way news gathering was conducted.
The case arose from a Chicago grand jury’s investigation into who told the two reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, about actions the government was planning to take against two Islamic charities, Holy Land Foundation in Texas and Global Relief Foundation in Illinois. Though the government contended that calls from the reporters tipped off the charities to impending raids and asset seizures, the investigation appears to be focused on identifying the reporters’ sources. No testimony has been sought from the reporters, and there has been no indication that their actions are a subject of the investigation.
“No grand jury can make an informed decision to pursue the investigation further, much less to indict or not indict, without the reporters’ evidence,” Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. wrote for majority, in an opinion joined by Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse. “We see no danger to a free press in so holding. Learning of imminent law enforcement asset freezes/searches and informing targets of them is not an activity essential, or even common, to journalism.”
George Freeman, vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, disputed the majority’s characterization. Ms. Miller and Mr. Shenon, he said, “were conducting their journalistic duties by getting reaction to an ongoing story.”
Mr. Freeman added: “The move against the charities was not a surprise. No one has ever alleged that any federal agent was hindered or hurt or didn’t succeed.”
Mr. Freeman said The Times had not decided whether to pursue an appeal, either to the full appeals court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, or to the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Miller, who retired from The Times last year, said she was very disappointed. “That this was 2-to-1 showed how close these issues are and the need for a federal shield law to protect journalists, their telephone numbers and hence their sources,” she said.
In an unrelated case last year, a federal appeals court in Washington ordered Ms. Miller and Matthew Cooper, then of Time magazine, to testify before a grand jury about conversations with their sources. They did so after receiving their sources’ permission, though not before Ms. Miller spent 85 days in jail.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald was the prosecutor in both cases, though he acted as United States attorney in Chicago in the charities case and as special counsel in the Washington case. His spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment yesterday.
While yesterday’s decision represented a clear loss for The Times, the majority ruled for the paper on several subsidiary points and left open the possibility that it would protect reporters’ sources in cases involving other kinds of reporting.
The majority said, for instance, that the paper had been entitled to bring a civil suit in New York to challenge a grand jury subpoena in Chicago. It also said that whatever protections the reporters had against being called to testify about their sources also extended to their phone records. And it said that “courts can easily find appropriate means of protecting the journalists involved and their sources” where “government corruption or misconduct” is involved.
But the court rejected The Times’s central argument, saying that neither the United States Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Branzburg v. Hayes, which considered the scope of the protections offered by the First Amendment, nor later developments in other areas of the law provided the paper with the ability to protect the phone records at issue in the case.
The majority ruled that the government could overcome any privilege that even a broad reading of the Branzburg decision allowed. It also declined to adopt a so-called common-law evidentiary privilege based on the shield laws almost all states have adopted, saying the government could similarly defeat any plausible version of such a privilege.
In seeming to acknowledge the existence of privilege, though one subject to a balancing test, the decision differed from the one issued by the federal appeals court in Washington last year that sent Ms. Miller to jail.
“There is a lot more to be heard from the courts before this issue is resolved one way or the other,” said Floyd Abrams, who represented The Times in both cases.
In his dissent, Judge Robert D. Sack said the government had not shown that the phone records contained important information that could not be obtained elsewhere. Judge Sack added a cautionary note about the consequences of unfettered access to reporters’ phone records.
“Reporters might find themselves,” he said, “as a matter of practical necessity, contacting sources the way I understand drug dealers to reach theirs — by use of clandestine cellphones and meeting in darkened doorways. Ordinary use of the telephone could become a threat to journalist and source alike. It is difficult to see in whose best interests such a regime would operate.”
Judge Winter was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Judge Kearse by President Jimmy Carter and Judge Sack by President Bill Clinton.
This is just another reason why the GOP were depicted on the cover of TIME a few weeks back as an elephant showing its ASS! 'Cause these people want to be crusaders in the "name" of Patriotism but at the EXPENSE of so-called American Ideals.
Buncha bitches! As Gza from The Wu-Tang Clan has often said, most notably in the Dave Chappelle skit "Wu-Tang Financial"
Have you ever listened to this group called ANTIBALAS, they're a New York City-based Afrobeat group, and they're always talking about WWIV -- and how CNN and Fox News chose not to cover this war, as it took place on the Dark Continent.
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: August 2, 2006
A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday.
The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic to claims that journalists should be entitled to protect their sources, reversed a lower court and dealt a further setback to news organizations, which have lately been on a losing streak in the federal courts.
The dissenting judge said that the government had failed to demonstrate it truly needed the records and that efforts to obtain reporters’ phone records could alter the way news gathering was conducted.
The case arose from a Chicago grand jury’s investigation into who told the two reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, about actions the government was planning to take against two Islamic charities, Holy Land Foundation in Texas and Global Relief Foundation in Illinois. Though the government contended that calls from the reporters tipped off the charities to impending raids and asset seizures, the investigation appears to be focused on identifying the reporters’ sources. No testimony has been sought from the reporters, and there has been no indication that their actions are a subject of the investigation.
“No grand jury can make an informed decision to pursue the investigation further, much less to indict or not indict, without the reporters’ evidence,” Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. wrote for majority, in an opinion joined by Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse. “We see no danger to a free press in so holding. Learning of imminent law enforcement asset freezes/searches and informing targets of them is not an activity essential, or even common, to journalism.”
George Freeman, vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, disputed the majority’s characterization. Ms. Miller and Mr. Shenon, he said, “were conducting their journalistic duties by getting reaction to an ongoing story.”
Mr. Freeman added: “The move against the charities was not a surprise. No one has ever alleged that any federal agent was hindered or hurt or didn’t succeed.”
Mr. Freeman said The Times had not decided whether to pursue an appeal, either to the full appeals court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, or to the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Miller, who retired from The Times last year, said she was very disappointed. “That this was 2-to-1 showed how close these issues are and the need for a federal shield law to protect journalists, their telephone numbers and hence their sources,” she said.
In an unrelated case last year, a federal appeals court in Washington ordered Ms. Miller and Matthew Cooper, then of Time magazine, to testify before a grand jury about conversations with their sources. They did so after receiving their sources’ permission, though not before Ms. Miller spent 85 days in jail.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald was the prosecutor in both cases, though he acted as United States attorney in Chicago in the charities case and as special counsel in the Washington case. His spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment yesterday.
While yesterday’s decision represented a clear loss for The Times, the majority ruled for the paper on several subsidiary points and left open the possibility that it would protect reporters’ sources in cases involving other kinds of reporting.
The majority said, for instance, that the paper had been entitled to bring a civil suit in New York to challenge a grand jury subpoena in Chicago. It also said that whatever protections the reporters had against being called to testify about their sources also extended to their phone records. And it said that “courts can easily find appropriate means of protecting the journalists involved and their sources” where “government corruption or misconduct” is involved.
But the court rejected The Times’s central argument, saying that neither the United States Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Branzburg v. Hayes, which considered the scope of the protections offered by the First Amendment, nor later developments in other areas of the law provided the paper with the ability to protect the phone records at issue in the case.
The majority ruled that the government could overcome any privilege that even a broad reading of the Branzburg decision allowed. It also declined to adopt a so-called common-law evidentiary privilege based on the shield laws almost all states have adopted, saying the government could similarly defeat any plausible version of such a privilege.
In seeming to acknowledge the existence of privilege, though one subject to a balancing test, the decision differed from the one issued by the federal appeals court in Washington last year that sent Ms. Miller to jail.
“There is a lot more to be heard from the courts before this issue is resolved one way or the other,” said Floyd Abrams, who represented The Times in both cases.
In his dissent, Judge Robert D. Sack said the government had not shown that the phone records contained important information that could not be obtained elsewhere. Judge Sack added a cautionary note about the consequences of unfettered access to reporters’ phone records.
“Reporters might find themselves,” he said, “as a matter of practical necessity, contacting sources the way I understand drug dealers to reach theirs — by use of clandestine cellphones and meeting in darkened doorways. Ordinary use of the telephone could become a threat to journalist and source alike. It is difficult to see in whose best interests such a regime would operate.”
Judge Winter was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Judge Kearse by President Jimmy Carter and Judge Sack by President Bill Clinton.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Debacle In Iraq
For some the Iraqis want to wipe each other off the face of the planet. And guess what? They can't even effectively put Hussein on trail (he or his lawyers are constantly walking out and/or boycotting the proceedings, and the lawywers are getting bumped off by the militias that roam the streets).
The decades, nay centuries, of simmering violence continues unchecked each and every day all over Iraq. And the American soldiers are probably sick to death of the bullshit that the towelheads keep perpetrating on themselves and the G.I. Joes. There's been a few cases in the news recently where American soldiers who "gone buck wild" and either raped and murdered or just plain murdered Iraqi so-called citizens... it's hard to really gauge how morally wrong this activity is, because historically occupying armies usually have the run of the place where ever they've conquered. Rampant fucking by soldiers, pillaging but grunts, and cover-up murders are par for the course.
I don't condone that kind of activity, but you can't be surprised by it. Especially after Abu Gahrib; as far as I'm concerned that was only the tip of the iceberg. We all forget that this is country where Hussein's malignant kids ran about and fucked with people with impunity. So there's a lot of shit that is kept quite and we're not ever going to hear about it...
I'm sure that there is a good 80% of Iraqis who just want this shit to go away -- by shit I mean the infidels who are perverting the teachings of Islam and twisting to their aggressive asshole beliefs... I heard this story the other day how Shi'ites can into a majority Sunni enclave, set up phony check points and started hemming people up for immediate execution. This went on unchecked for about three hours -- three fucking hours!!! How many people are just going to get wholesale slaughtered like that? Don't the militias realizes that everybody in
The absurdist counterpoint is, with all these people getting killed the country is better off because the division of scarce resources will have less claimants once Haliburton and the others have raped the natural resources, and then set-up a puppet economy. Under the guise the democracy leads to free markets, which leads to people buying US goods & services... well, mainly services as we don't make a damn with two tugs of dead dogs dick in the US anymore (auto industry is a joke; companies like GM lose money and every single fucking car! every car! they only make money on SUVs, which are atrocious because they demand some much gasoline to fuel, and spew so much additional CO2 in the air).
I was reading somewhere that a retired general estimated that Prescott Bush's Grandson's war on so-called terror is the single most harmful foreign policy act in the history of the country, and the near future -- only thing that potential be worse is dropping a nuke somewhere and then getting a nuke relaliation through a van-bomb in someplace like DC or LA.
I hyped up this webcomic a few entires ago called The Shooting War, it's a great look at G.I.Joe still kicking it around Baghdad in 2011, and yeah, we're still gonna be there that long. The iraqi government has no ability to control the various factions that are tearing the country apart.
Why didn't the people in the War Cabinet understand that nation building in a place with such a strong history of Ethnic hatred wasn't gonna work? Didn't they see how Yugoslavia erupted? That was the most recent case of ethnic groups not getting along, but being forced to live under the same aegis for far too long. Apparently bin Laden fucking around in that war, too. Unfortunately, the killings between Sunni and Shi'ites is very much akin to the Ethnic Cleansing that went on in the Balkins, yet no one seems to make the broader connection... I wonder why?
The decades, nay centuries, of simmering violence continues unchecked each and every day all over Iraq. And the American soldiers are probably sick to death of the bullshit that the towelheads keep perpetrating on themselves and the G.I. Joes. There's been a few cases in the news recently where American soldiers who "gone buck wild" and either raped and murdered or just plain murdered Iraqi so-called citizens... it's hard to really gauge how morally wrong this activity is, because historically occupying armies usually have the run of the place where ever they've conquered. Rampant fucking by soldiers, pillaging but grunts, and cover-up murders are par for the course.
I don't condone that kind of activity, but you can't be surprised by it. Especially after Abu Gahrib; as far as I'm concerned that was only the tip of the iceberg. We all forget that this is country where Hussein's malignant kids ran about and fucked with people with impunity. So there's a lot of shit that is kept quite and we're not ever going to hear about it...
I'm sure that there is a good 80% of Iraqis who just want this shit to go away -- by shit I mean the infidels who are perverting the teachings of Islam and twisting to their aggressive asshole beliefs... I heard this story the other day how Shi'ites can into a majority Sunni enclave, set up phony check points and started hemming people up for immediate execution. This went on unchecked for about three hours -- three fucking hours!!! How many people are just going to get wholesale slaughtered like that? Don't the militias realizes that everybody in
The absurdist counterpoint is, with all these people getting killed the country is better off because the division of scarce resources will have less claimants once Haliburton and the others have raped the natural resources, and then set-up a puppet economy. Under the guise the democracy leads to free markets, which leads to people buying US goods & services... well, mainly services as we don't make a damn with two tugs of dead dogs dick in the US anymore (auto industry is a joke; companies like GM lose money and every single fucking car! every car! they only make money on SUVs, which are atrocious because they demand some much gasoline to fuel, and spew so much additional CO2 in the air).
I was reading somewhere that a retired general estimated that Prescott Bush's Grandson's war on so-called terror is the single most harmful foreign policy act in the history of the country, and the near future -- only thing that potential be worse is dropping a nuke somewhere and then getting a nuke relaliation through a van-bomb in someplace like DC or LA.
I hyped up this webcomic a few entires ago called The Shooting War, it's a great look at G.I.Joe still kicking it around Baghdad in 2011, and yeah, we're still gonna be there that long. The iraqi government has no ability to control the various factions that are tearing the country apart.
Why didn't the people in the War Cabinet understand that nation building in a place with such a strong history of Ethnic hatred wasn't gonna work? Didn't they see how Yugoslavia erupted? That was the most recent case of ethnic groups not getting along, but being forced to live under the same aegis for far too long. Apparently bin Laden fucking around in that war, too. Unfortunately, the killings between Sunni and Shi'ites is very much akin to the Ethnic Cleansing that went on in the Balkins, yet no one seems to make the broader connection... I wonder why?
MOVIE REVIEW: WAIST DEEP
Vondie Curtis-Hall unleashed his urban update of a Bonnie & Clyde story (that outlaw pair gets much props in the hip-hopized urban community) WAIST DEEP a couple of weeks ago. I saw it opening weekend, and am only now getting around to writig about it, 'cause I was talking about this high school film noir called BRICK last night.
Curiously my new favorite actress Meagan Goode is the female lead in WAIST DEEP is also in BRICK.
Besides having a killa body, and some of the most beautiful lips taht have ever been on screen -- she has the ACTING goods! That role in BRICK as a white-bred Black girl in Orange County is 1000 miles away from the 'Round the Way girl from South Central who had never seen the Sunset Strip before.
Only thing is Hollywood doesn't tend to give roles to smoking hot young Black actresses (they usually have one ethnic girl getting the roles, and currently that's Jessica Alba).
The thing about Meagan is that as striking as she is, she doesn't distract from the movie -- in fact, she draws you in even more. Now that's the kind of charisma that 90% of the successful female actresses don't have. Take some like Catherine Zeta-Jones, pretty, real fucking pretty, but her beauty gets in the way and I have YET to see her do a strong performance (except for Ocean's 12 which didn't live up though).
I don't know what she's up to next, but I can't wait. I wonder if Hollywood will annoint her the Next It Black Girl, as Halle has kind of fallen off with her choices...
Curiously my new favorite actress Meagan Goode is the female lead in WAIST DEEP is also in BRICK.
Besides having a killa body, and some of the most beautiful lips taht have ever been on screen -- she has the ACTING goods! That role in BRICK as a white-bred Black girl in Orange County is 1000 miles away from the 'Round the Way girl from South Central who had never seen the Sunset Strip before.
Only thing is Hollywood doesn't tend to give roles to smoking hot young Black actresses (they usually have one ethnic girl getting the roles, and currently that's Jessica Alba).
The thing about Meagan is that as striking as she is, she doesn't distract from the movie -- in fact, she draws you in even more. Now that's the kind of charisma that 90% of the successful female actresses don't have. Take some like Catherine Zeta-Jones, pretty, real fucking pretty, but her beauty gets in the way and I have YET to see her do a strong performance (except for Ocean's 12 which didn't live up though).
I don't know what she's up to next, but I can't wait. I wonder if Hollywood will annoint her the Next It Black Girl, as Halle has kind of fallen off with her choices...
World Cup Antics -- Zidane's Headbutt
I saw a lot of the World Cup this year, something I hadn't really paid attention to in the past. But football/soccer has been on the come up
There have been many,. many stories in the news about the serious allegations of racism that spew forth from the mouths of Germans toward non-Europeans. But it's also true that the Italians can be held responsible for racist antics. It's a known fact that Italians have trouble with North Africans for several reasons (Mussolini couldn't whup on in them in the 30s was the last time the Italians tried to flex), but mainly because there is genetic unproven claim that reason why the Italians and certain Spanish are darker skinned is because of North African conquests throughout the ages.
Now what does all this have to do with the World Cup and Zidane's headbutting? It's simple, the Italian DID make a nasty comment about Zidane's Algerian heritage.
Zidane's agent Alain Migliaccio told BBC Five Live, "He told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn't tell me what." Sources in France say it is believed Materazzi insulted Zidane's family.
Materazzi himself has not spoken publicly about the incident except to deny a claim by Paris-based anti-racism group SOS Racism, made on Monday, that he had called Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore". Criminal Expert Lip Readers from two different sources have verified this.
I don't know about you? But thems fighting words. The history of Algerians in France is tainted with terrorism allegations and activity. Algeria had to revolt quite substantially to get France's colonial yoke thrown off -- and that was as recently as the late 1950s.
"It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means," the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.
Now if you analyize Materazzi's statement you know he's lying out of his ass. He's claiming he's ignorant and doesn't know what the word terrorist means??! Uh, he's been alive and present over the past 5 years in particular, and he's definitely of age to have grown up in the '70s in Italy when it was racked by 5th Columnist terrorist activities. I bet Materazzi knows that the Red Brigades were terrorists.
Now granted Zidane shouldn't have reacted that way, but I'm sure many of his family and friends have been fucked with by the French for terrorist suspicions, and that's something that is more than a touchy subject. Because you can call someone a nigger or a monkey all you want, it's not necessarily that accurate. However, if you insult someone's heritage in a time when that heritage is under so much pressure ACROSS THE GLOBE, you're going to get a reaction that would no doubt seem inappropriate.
Racism and xenophobia will plague the world for the rest of its days, as it always has. It's stupid to think racism and bigotry can be stamped out like it is an science fiction novel (as you notice, niggas and spics typically don't exist in sci-fi, or in perfunctory roles).
There have been many,. many stories in the news about the serious allegations of racism that spew forth from the mouths of Germans toward non-Europeans. But it's also true that the Italians can be held responsible for racist antics. It's a known fact that Italians have trouble with North Africans for several reasons (Mussolini couldn't whup on in them in the 30s was the last time the Italians tried to flex), but mainly because there is genetic unproven claim that reason why the Italians and certain Spanish are darker skinned is because of North African conquests throughout the ages.
Now what does all this have to do with the World Cup and Zidane's headbutting? It's simple, the Italian DID make a nasty comment about Zidane's Algerian heritage.
Zidane's agent Alain Migliaccio told BBC Five Live, "He told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn't tell me what." Sources in France say it is believed Materazzi insulted Zidane's family.
Materazzi himself has not spoken publicly about the incident except to deny a claim by Paris-based anti-racism group SOS Racism, made on Monday, that he had called Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore". Criminal Expert Lip Readers from two different sources have verified this.
I don't know about you? But thems fighting words. The history of Algerians in France is tainted with terrorism allegations and activity. Algeria had to revolt quite substantially to get France's colonial yoke thrown off -- and that was as recently as the late 1950s.
"It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means," the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.
Now if you analyize Materazzi's statement you know he's lying out of his ass. He's claiming he's ignorant and doesn't know what the word terrorist means??! Uh, he's been alive and present over the past 5 years in particular, and he's definitely of age to have grown up in the '70s in Italy when it was racked by 5th Columnist terrorist activities. I bet Materazzi knows that the Red Brigades were terrorists.
Now granted Zidane shouldn't have reacted that way, but I'm sure many of his family and friends have been fucked with by the French for terrorist suspicions, and that's something that is more than a touchy subject. Because you can call someone a nigger or a monkey all you want, it's not necessarily that accurate. However, if you insult someone's heritage in a time when that heritage is under so much pressure ACROSS THE GLOBE, you're going to get a reaction that would no doubt seem inappropriate.
Racism and xenophobia will plague the world for the rest of its days, as it always has. It's stupid to think racism and bigotry can be stamped out like it is an science fiction novel (as you notice, niggas and spics typically don't exist in sci-fi, or in perfunctory roles).
Friday, June 30, 2006
A Blast From The Past
I started reading James Ellroy's AMERICAN TABLOID today. I can't belive I bought this book TEN YEARS ago, and am only now just getting around to reading it. I was on an Ellroy kick back then... got roped in by his pieces in GQ magazine, and then picked up WHITE JAZZ just after the movie of L.A. Confidential came out. I didn' t know the book was going to be related to the storyline of the movie. I chose it 'cause I'm an avid jazz fan, and thought there'd be something curiously interesting int eh narrative.
Unfortunately, I learned that WHITE JAZZ was book four in the now infamous L.A. Quartet. So I went back to read THE BLACK DAHLIA (which is coming out as movie with uberhottie Scarlett Johansson -- see accompanying photo 'nuff said). The one thing I noticed is that reading WHITE JAZZ spoils you to rest of his previous novels, as none of them have the pumping rhythm that book has. I don't know how he came up with that literary style, but it boosted his status -- in my mind -- as one of the great American writers of the past century, if not of all time. Fuck it, Ellroy is one of the greatest American writers -- hands down.
What Ellroy does trenchantly good is delve into the unbridled id of his characters (and therefore his readers) and presents thought patterns and mucking around ideas that all men have (women are never expertly delved into , but hey Ellroy is the self-described Demon Dog, bitches ARE going to get short shrift) and makes you examine your core beliefs as a man -- are you an Alpha Male or a Beta Bitch? You'll empathize with murderers, psychos, perverts and all around deviants, because you had those thoughts, too.
Now you might not be considering butt-fucking yourself with a dildo the way one of the cops has a habit of doing in WHITE JAZZ or (ab)using a skull-carved wooden dildo on a stripper/hooker at stag party (do they even have those anymore), but you've been just as perverse in your own way. And Ellroy enables you to rejoice in your own degenerage behavior, because his characters are at once repelling and compelling -- much like each and every one of us.
The curious thing about reading Ellroy ten years after his serious climb toward national fame as a literary figure, is that his hatred of LA women (not women in general although it sure feels that way) is a direct result of him being a misfit and spending too much time in Los Angeles in his young adult years. Any straight man who spends too much time in LA -- with aspirations of grandeur mind you -- is going feel like dicking down women with impunity and leaving them in cold, because of the sheer ice queen behavior most women exhibit out here.
I certainly became that way... right about the time I was reading WHITE JAZZ, he tapped into the frustration I had with meeting suitablly fuckable women in Los Angeles. The I'm-better-than-you-just-because-you-want-to-fuck-me mentality that far far far tooooo many LA women have was fucking with my brain, and I harbored a lot anger.
Ellroy taps into his own personal anger about the grand dame bitch that is LA and squeezes out curiously attractive vitriolic prose and repugnant storylines with ease, that it made serious think about writing harsh harsh material
What I'd like to see Ellroy do is tackle modern day LA -- with it's moral Babylonian activities of Paris Hilton's Hollywood.
The beauty of entering into a by-gone world as novelist and exploring its unrepentant underbelly is that 20/20 commentary about those times is everywhere and its up to a skilled storyteller to wade through most of the carp to weave a dense story that resonates more so now, because the times were simpler then and therefore more apt for incisive allegory.
I'm only a few pages in on AMERICAN TABLOID and I'm completely reminded of why I liked this underworld storytelling in the first place, but it doesn't have to bite of WHITE JAZZ... although it's too early I guess. And stylistically, the first 50 pages or so of WHITE JAZZ can be alienating.
Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy brothers seem to be at the heart of this novel, the same way the ripping up of Chavez Ravine was at the center of WHITE JAZZ.
I can't wait to see Scarlett Johansson's nubile flesh in the upcoming film. She fucks pretty good on camera, yet I still haven't seen a break-oout performance by her... mabye this will be it. It sure would sad if her only talked about performance this year is when Isaac Mizrahi squeezed her tit at the Golden Globes...
I digress into slanderous talk.
But that's why you read, isn't it!?!!?
Unfortunately, I learned that WHITE JAZZ was book four in the now infamous L.A. Quartet. So I went back to read THE BLACK DAHLIA (which is coming out as movie with uberhottie Scarlett Johansson -- see accompanying photo 'nuff said). The one thing I noticed is that reading WHITE JAZZ spoils you to rest of his previous novels, as none of them have the pumping rhythm that book has. I don't know how he came up with that literary style, but it boosted his status -- in my mind -- as one of the great American writers of the past century, if not of all time. Fuck it, Ellroy is one of the greatest American writers -- hands down.
What Ellroy does trenchantly good is delve into the unbridled id of his characters (and therefore his readers) and presents thought patterns and mucking around ideas that all men have (women are never expertly delved into , but hey Ellroy is the self-described Demon Dog, bitches ARE going to get short shrift) and makes you examine your core beliefs as a man -- are you an Alpha Male or a Beta Bitch? You'll empathize with murderers, psychos, perverts and all around deviants, because you had those thoughts, too.
Now you might not be considering butt-fucking yourself with a dildo the way one of the cops has a habit of doing in WHITE JAZZ or (ab)using a skull-carved wooden dildo on a stripper/hooker at stag party (do they even have those anymore), but you've been just as perverse in your own way. And Ellroy enables you to rejoice in your own degenerage behavior, because his characters are at once repelling and compelling -- much like each and every one of us.
The curious thing about reading Ellroy ten years after his serious climb toward national fame as a literary figure, is that his hatred of LA women (not women in general although it sure feels that way) is a direct result of him being a misfit and spending too much time in Los Angeles in his young adult years. Any straight man who spends too much time in LA -- with aspirations of grandeur mind you -- is going feel like dicking down women with impunity and leaving them in cold, because of the sheer ice queen behavior most women exhibit out here.
I certainly became that way... right about the time I was reading WHITE JAZZ, he tapped into the frustration I had with meeting suitablly fuckable women in Los Angeles. The I'm-better-than-you-just-because-you-want-to-fuck-me mentality that far far far tooooo many LA women have was fucking with my brain, and I harbored a lot anger.
Ellroy taps into his own personal anger about the grand dame bitch that is LA and squeezes out curiously attractive vitriolic prose and repugnant storylines with ease, that it made serious think about writing harsh harsh material
What I'd like to see Ellroy do is tackle modern day LA -- with it's moral Babylonian activities of Paris Hilton's Hollywood.
The beauty of entering into a by-gone world as novelist and exploring its unrepentant underbelly is that 20/20 commentary about those times is everywhere and its up to a skilled storyteller to wade through most of the carp to weave a dense story that resonates more so now, because the times were simpler then and therefore more apt for incisive allegory.
I'm only a few pages in on AMERICAN TABLOID and I'm completely reminded of why I liked this underworld storytelling in the first place, but it doesn't have to bite of WHITE JAZZ... although it's too early I guess. And stylistically, the first 50 pages or so of WHITE JAZZ can be alienating.
Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy brothers seem to be at the heart of this novel, the same way the ripping up of Chavez Ravine was at the center of WHITE JAZZ.
I can't wait to see Scarlett Johansson's nubile flesh in the upcoming film. She fucks pretty good on camera, yet I still haven't seen a break-oout performance by her... mabye this will be it. It sure would sad if her only talked about performance this year is when Isaac Mizrahi squeezed her tit at the Golden Globes...
I digress into slanderous talk.
But that's why you read, isn't it!?!!?
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Soviet Gun-totting Bitch
So this is a plug for a really fascinating webcomic that I was hipped to by, by, by I don't fucking remember, but this is a good story... if you like good stories, told visually (i.e. as graphic novels or movies and shit), then check out The Shooting War, it's futurist story about a v-blogger in Iraq in the year 2011... yeah, George Bush's war on terror is still being fought in the Fertile Crescent by insurgents who could hope to see us all slaughtered before them.
There's great pastiche use of mixed media in The Shooting War, and a great piece of satire (as the best satire doesn't have to be laugh out-loud funny, it is supposed to tickle your intellectual brain center... that is if you've developed one -- something that's hard to come by via public school education).
It reminded me of this short film I saw an early cut of called "Fuck You, Pay Me." It was a sci-fi satire about the future of debt collectors, in which the Credit Card Companies (those soulless bastards) have the authority to hire mercenary police officers to come and TAKE YO' SHIT! with impunity. It's pretty good. It'll probably be at a bunch of film festivals in the fall or early next year... i guess. Hopefully, the filmmakers will have a website to watch the short as streaming video. Who knows...
There's great pastiche use of mixed media in The Shooting War, and a great piece of satire (as the best satire doesn't have to be laugh out-loud funny, it is supposed to tickle your intellectual brain center... that is if you've developed one -- something that's hard to come by via public school education).
It reminded me of this short film I saw an early cut of called "Fuck You, Pay Me." It was a sci-fi satire about the future of debt collectors, in which the Credit Card Companies (those soulless bastards) have the authority to hire mercenary police officers to come and TAKE YO' SHIT! with impunity. It's pretty good. It'll probably be at a bunch of film festivals in the fall or early next year... i guess. Hopefully, the filmmakers will have a website to watch the short as streaming video. Who knows...
Men v. Women -- Nigga Style
You knew I was going to weigh in on this, you just knew it. I bet you were wondering, when though. This is something that PISSES me off to the highest level. Seriously.
What am I talking about?
This the Tired Blackman movie trailer. Check it out (use that open in new tab on Firefox, so you don't lose this page... what no Firefox? You're slipping).
I actually know two of the actresses in the trailer. They originally hippped me to this a couple months back, and I was going to create a post but I haven't been posting that much over the last three months (no time, and not much to say, so sue me if you wanted more).
Anyway, if you don't have a video plug-in installed on your browser (and why the fuck not?), I'll give you a brief summary: it a a clip from the upcoming film Diary of a Tired Black Man (i don't where the funding is coming from, it might always be an "upcoming film") and the scenes features a Black Man (played by an African though, I wonder why not an African American) arriving at the house of his former spouse with a new partner: a white broad.
This website and the trailer has sparked a heated debate over the many issues it raises, from interracial dating to whether many black women are simply "too angry" to be datable. This is true for a lot of black women, but it also needs to be pointed out that many a black woman wants a thug type nigga, as glorified in them music videos of our over-hip-hopped culture.
The short clip (just 3.5 miuntes long) will leave most viewers either waving their hands in the air -- either in agreement or frustration.
This trailer brings the spotlight on the BOOLSHIT that black women do when they sit around with their friends. The women (nay, shrews) castigate the ex-husband, James, as a "weak punk" who has chosen to date outside the race rather than handle what they call a strong black woman. James blames the women for their inability to find, much less keep, a decent black man at their side -- because of their penchant for drama.
See a "strong black woman" is what you might call a piece of work. And they don't have any qualms about hitting below the belt, even if they're not interested in you (as a black man). Case in point, I'm out a couple weeks ago to this black girl's birthday party at this ritzy club in Beverly Hills, and I run into this black woman who meet me maybe 8 months ago at a dinner club. This black woman happened to be from a run-down ghetto section of my sad hometown Cleveland, Ohio. Anyway, we're talking, flirting a little bit and things are looking like they might be promising... until she drops some info about how I should be going to church more often (red flag!). So I cool to her, and then the dancing begins and she says to me, "I see that there are some pretty white girls here, aren't you going to talk to them?" And I was like, what the fuck brought that on? So I asked her, and she said, "I saw you last time talking to those white girls." I had to think back... oh, yeah the first time I met her I was talking with these two white actresses who were going to be in a commercial that I was getting ready to direct -- a little flirting going on, but nothing serious.
AND THIS BLACK BITCH REMEMBERED IT LIKE I WAS KICKING HER IN HER CUNT!
I kind of walked away, but she then let it slip that her own mother was white. I was like, you's a mean-spirited bitch!
But back to the Tired Blackman film clip; it was controversially created by first-time filmmaker Tim Alexander, who claims that being provocative is second nature to him. Alexander states emphatically that there's a disease out there called the "angry black woman syndrome." He says it must be identified, diagnosed and treated (with ruthless dicking?).
Alexander believes African-American women who grew up in fatherless homes, heard this CONSTANT REFRAIN from their aunts and grandmothers that black men are "no good" -- an opinion that is stridently reinforced in the international media -- are now these angry adult women.
"They grow up, deal with the wrong men, finally meet the right guy and don't know how to turn it off," Alexander says. "They are so used to fighting; it's the only way they know to have a relationship. So when a man is a good man, they think he's a punk."
The flipside is that African-American men who grew up in fatherless homes have a undrecurrent of disrepect for black women -- outside of their mothers (hence the fact that "mama cracks" are the most viruelent of verbal assaults among black males.
The one thing Alexander's movie scene revives is the always rancorous debate that has been going on in the African-American community for decades: Why can't black men and women deal with each other in a positive way? And what does that mean for the future of the black family?
On a certain level, the black family has been targeted for execution since the end of the civil rights era.
It is a burning question for many, including the callers that flooded the phone lines during Alexander's recent appearances on nationally syndicated black radio shows. When Alexander appeared on Rev. Al Sharpton's show, Keeping It Real, one female caller argued that black women's anger "generally starts from the man." A male caller countered: "When we come home, we don't need that loud-mouthed, self-sufficient, independent macho woman disagreeing with everything we say. We need kind women."
I can't comment from experience, as I haven't lived or dated a black woman -- simply because it never gets to the dating stage before my choices in life and my backstory raise the ire of the typical black broad...
Niggerized View of Fuck Partners
African-Americans have been bombarded in recent months with negative messages about the outlook for black couples. The Washington Post fronted a weekend "Outlook" section with the headline "Marriage Is for White People," and there are many books with titles such as Black and Single. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington says the percentage of black women who've never married has more than doubled between 1950 and 2004.
"If you internalize that, you will enter a relationship where you are doing everything or putting up with anything just to have someone," says LaDawn Black, a Baltimore-based author and radio host. Her show deals with relationships between black men and women. She says things aren't as bad out there as one might think.
Only thing LaDawn is ignoring is that, society has targeted black men is very cunning way, a way that makes having a stable relationship quite difficult. And the pop culture that black people in general subscribe to, tells them that fucking as many bitches as possible WITHOUT the thought of commitment or sacrifice IS the way to go. That's the hype that needs to be believed and targeted for execution.
UCLA professor and sex therapist Gail Wyatt agrees. She says African-American men and women have to stop allowing outdated concepts -– and media-driven angst -– to divide them.
"Our strength is in our ability to stand together," Wyatt says. "I don't care if a black man marries a black woman or not. I care if we support each other and don't buy into myths that make us look like and live like stereotypes." The myth/stereotype is that black men have no right to find non-black women attractive unless they're slumming and are weak.
White women are usually very HAPPY in their daily lives, if they get the basics in life they're usually happy. Fuck 'em well, give 'em presents and suprise them from time to time, and keep the finances in order and you'll have a great time with a white broad -- maybe this white broad is considered subservient to a black man, because she doesn't challenge his manhood on the regular. However, for a white woman to even suck a black man's dick, she's taking a risk that white men won't want her if the relationship goes bad. So they might work a little harder at the relationship to keep it going; which might mean taking more shit from the black man. but the giving and taking of shit between black men and women is a two-way street.
There's no quick fix for the issues between African-American men and women, Wyatt purports, but she believes they can be solved. Alexander hopes his movie sparks a discussion that can bring some change and healing to the black community.
What am I talking about?
This the Tired Blackman movie trailer. Check it out (use that open in new tab on Firefox, so you don't lose this page... what no Firefox? You're slipping).
I actually know two of the actresses in the trailer. They originally hippped me to this a couple months back, and I was going to create a post but I haven't been posting that much over the last three months (no time, and not much to say, so sue me if you wanted more).
Anyway, if you don't have a video plug-in installed on your browser (and why the fuck not?), I'll give you a brief summary: it a a clip from the upcoming film Diary of a Tired Black Man (i don't where the funding is coming from, it might always be an "upcoming film") and the scenes features a Black Man (played by an African though, I wonder why not an African American) arriving at the house of his former spouse with a new partner: a white broad.
This website and the trailer has sparked a heated debate over the many issues it raises, from interracial dating to whether many black women are simply "too angry" to be datable. This is true for a lot of black women, but it also needs to be pointed out that many a black woman wants a thug type nigga, as glorified in them music videos of our over-hip-hopped culture.
The short clip (just 3.5 miuntes long) will leave most viewers either waving their hands in the air -- either in agreement or frustration.
This trailer brings the spotlight on the BOOLSHIT that black women do when they sit around with their friends. The women (nay, shrews) castigate the ex-husband, James, as a "weak punk" who has chosen to date outside the race rather than handle what they call a strong black woman. James blames the women for their inability to find, much less keep, a decent black man at their side -- because of their penchant for drama.
See a "strong black woman" is what you might call a piece of work. And they don't have any qualms about hitting below the belt, even if they're not interested in you (as a black man). Case in point, I'm out a couple weeks ago to this black girl's birthday party at this ritzy club in Beverly Hills, and I run into this black woman who meet me maybe 8 months ago at a dinner club. This black woman happened to be from a run-down ghetto section of my sad hometown Cleveland, Ohio. Anyway, we're talking, flirting a little bit and things are looking like they might be promising... until she drops some info about how I should be going to church more often (red flag!). So I cool to her, and then the dancing begins and she says to me, "I see that there are some pretty white girls here, aren't you going to talk to them?" And I was like, what the fuck brought that on? So I asked her, and she said, "I saw you last time talking to those white girls." I had to think back... oh, yeah the first time I met her I was talking with these two white actresses who were going to be in a commercial that I was getting ready to direct -- a little flirting going on, but nothing serious.
AND THIS BLACK BITCH REMEMBERED IT LIKE I WAS KICKING HER IN HER CUNT!
I kind of walked away, but she then let it slip that her own mother was white. I was like, you's a mean-spirited bitch!
But back to the Tired Blackman film clip; it was controversially created by first-time filmmaker Tim Alexander, who claims that being provocative is second nature to him. Alexander states emphatically that there's a disease out there called the "angry black woman syndrome." He says it must be identified, diagnosed and treated (with ruthless dicking?).
Alexander believes African-American women who grew up in fatherless homes, heard this CONSTANT REFRAIN from their aunts and grandmothers that black men are "no good" -- an opinion that is stridently reinforced in the international media -- are now these angry adult women.
"They grow up, deal with the wrong men, finally meet the right guy and don't know how to turn it off," Alexander says. "They are so used to fighting; it's the only way they know to have a relationship. So when a man is a good man, they think he's a punk."
The flipside is that African-American men who grew up in fatherless homes have a undrecurrent of disrepect for black women -- outside of their mothers (hence the fact that "mama cracks" are the most viruelent of verbal assaults among black males.
The one thing Alexander's movie scene revives is the always rancorous debate that has been going on in the African-American community for decades: Why can't black men and women deal with each other in a positive way? And what does that mean for the future of the black family?
On a certain level, the black family has been targeted for execution since the end of the civil rights era.
It is a burning question for many, including the callers that flooded the phone lines during Alexander's recent appearances on nationally syndicated black radio shows. When Alexander appeared on Rev. Al Sharpton's show, Keeping It Real, one female caller argued that black women's anger "generally starts from the man." A male caller countered: "When we come home, we don't need that loud-mouthed, self-sufficient, independent macho woman disagreeing with everything we say. We need kind women."
I can't comment from experience, as I haven't lived or dated a black woman -- simply because it never gets to the dating stage before my choices in life and my backstory raise the ire of the typical black broad...
Niggerized View of Fuck Partners
African-Americans have been bombarded in recent months with negative messages about the outlook for black couples. The Washington Post fronted a weekend "Outlook" section with the headline "Marriage Is for White People," and there are many books with titles such as Black and Single. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington says the percentage of black women who've never married has more than doubled between 1950 and 2004.
"If you internalize that, you will enter a relationship where you are doing everything or putting up with anything just to have someone," says LaDawn Black, a Baltimore-based author and radio host. Her show deals with relationships between black men and women. She says things aren't as bad out there as one might think.
Only thing LaDawn is ignoring is that, society has targeted black men is very cunning way, a way that makes having a stable relationship quite difficult. And the pop culture that black people in general subscribe to, tells them that fucking as many bitches as possible WITHOUT the thought of commitment or sacrifice IS the way to go. That's the hype that needs to be believed and targeted for execution.
UCLA professor and sex therapist Gail Wyatt agrees. She says African-American men and women have to stop allowing outdated concepts -– and media-driven angst -– to divide them.
"Our strength is in our ability to stand together," Wyatt says. "I don't care if a black man marries a black woman or not. I care if we support each other and don't buy into myths that make us look like and live like stereotypes." The myth/stereotype is that black men have no right to find non-black women attractive unless they're slumming and are weak.
White women are usually very HAPPY in their daily lives, if they get the basics in life they're usually happy. Fuck 'em well, give 'em presents and suprise them from time to time, and keep the finances in order and you'll have a great time with a white broad -- maybe this white broad is considered subservient to a black man, because she doesn't challenge his manhood on the regular. However, for a white woman to even suck a black man's dick, she's taking a risk that white men won't want her if the relationship goes bad. So they might work a little harder at the relationship to keep it going; which might mean taking more shit from the black man. but the giving and taking of shit between black men and women is a two-way street.
There's no quick fix for the issues between African-American men and women, Wyatt purports, but she believes they can be solved. Alexander hopes his movie sparks a discussion that can bring some change and healing to the black community.
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