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In which my articles, poems and random thoughts will appear. See also my website at stewalbert.com
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wSaturday, June 18, 2005 |
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My central website is http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew. For information on Stew Albert's new book --"Who The Hell Is Stew Albert?" go to http://www.redhen.org/stewalbert.htm or Amazon.com. If you want a signed copy get in touch with me at stewa@aol.com Most of my movie reviews written during the period of my Hep C chemotherapy appear at: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/stewreviews.html Thank you Third Page
And if you want to book me for a speech, you can contact the Yippie Speakers Bureau via http://yippie.mindvox.com
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Brotherhood
In what scum sucking gene pool
did the Bush boys do the dog paddle?
George's neurologicaly challenged expression
suggest his career path
would have been serial killing
only he lacked sufficient concentration.
And Jeb's soul is uglier
than a mutilated corpse,
he's a dumb vampire sticking his teeth
into Michael Schiavo
under a high noon sun
and
with everybody watching from the shade,
Count Jebula will burn in Hell.
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Day In The Life -- I got another request for a film interview. With documentaries in fashion, this is my second request for the summer. The first one will bring Judy and me to NYC and the second will be done in Portland. It's amazing that after all these years some people still want to know what I know.
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Sideways -- I put off seeing this movie because I'm not crazy about self intoxicated Yuppies getting drunk on a wine tasting tour and fucking over women. People said, it was very funny, had great references to wine and really caught the spirit of contemporary California. After seeing the film, I don't like the guys very much, although at times the actor does show some boyish charm and the would-be novelist does reveal traces of authentic soul. Two strong and very likably attractive women are part of the week in wine land and yes, some of the wine talk is quite poetic. It's a good but not great film.
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stew at 10:45 AM
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wFriday, June 17, 2005 |
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My central website is http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew. For information on Stew Albert's new book --"Who The Hell Is Stew Albert?" go to http://www.redhen.org/stewalbert.htm or Amazon.com. If you want a signed copy get in touch with me at stewa@aol.com Most of my movie reviews written during the period of my Hep C chemotherapy appear at: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/stewreviews.html Thank you Third Page
And if you want to book me for a speech, you can contact the Yippie Speakers Bureau via http://yippie.mindvox.com
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The Wild One
Bush base is contracting fast
now being supported by the deranged and cynical.
he keeps repeating idiot phrases
that are going below moronic standards
saving social security and Iraq
with rip off and torture
but he's so unPresidential
seems more like a cracked up motorcycle gang
trying to terrify a ghost town
and
not believing spies
who tipped them off
that all its citizens were dead.
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Day In The Life -- I just finished reading "Lost From The Ottawa -- The Story Of The Journey Back, a memoir authored by my old Ann Arbor White Panther Party pal, Pun Plamondon. Pun was a founder (along with John Sinclair and others) of the White Panther Party, an organization which for several years led the dope, rock n roll an fucking in the streets movement in the mid west. They were Black Panther admiring Yippies with Maoist political organization and style. Pun's personal story is amazing. He was born Native American but he didn't know it because his parents died shortly after his birth and he was adopted. He only found out about his origins much later from reading a police report. After the White Panthers and the 60s collapsed Pun became a very dangerous alcoholic and drug abuser. He probably would have wound up dead or in prison if he hadn't discovered the practical meaning of his Indian roots, he was saved by his life force will power, and returning to his original Tribe. Read the book, Pun's writing about police and FBI political repression in Detroit and Ann Arbor during the 60's is alone worth the price of admission. Order it online from www.TRAFFORD.com.
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We saw Barbarian Invasions -- It's an amazing French-Canadian film about almost everything important. A college professor lies dying of cancer amidst a bureaucratic monstrosity known as the Canadian healthcare system. He is a lusty free loving socialist of the 60's who has only been partially disillusioned from his ideals and sexual behavior. He has a millionaire capitalist son from whom he is quite alienated. ("Why couldn't he have read just one book in his whole life?) But the cold and calculating son is able to wheel and deal the medical system (yes, they also accept bribes in Canada.) into giving his father much better treatment. There are great scenes in which the proper son scores medical heroin for his father and a rather attractive female junkie becomes an unexpected Guardian Angel to the dying man. The film concludes in a river side setting and begins to strongly resemble The Big Chill but with charming French irony and wit. The film has great convincing characters, including a free thinking nun and a police detective who advises on how to score smack. Its message is that all existing systems suck, it is humanity, love and a good sense of humor that will get us through the night.
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stew at 9:30 AM
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wThursday, June 16, 2005 |
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My central website is http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew. For information on Stew Albert's new book --"Who The Hell Is Stew Albert?" go to http://www.redhen.org/stewalbert.htm or Amazon.com. If you want a signed copy get in touch with me at stewa@aol.com Most of my movie reviews written during the period of my Hep C chemotherapy appear at: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/stewreviews.html Thank you Third Page
And if you want to book me for a speech, you can contact the Yippie Speakers Bureau via http://yippie.mindvox.com
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Vegetation
Autopsy of Schiavo
proves Terri would have made a great Republican
cause half a brain
is Bush country blindness.
Anti-life liberals
killed her because
she was sending mind message mentations
organizing embryos
just for Jeb.
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The Sting
Young people taking a one way trip to Baghdad,
their corpses
a growing part of our population,
while Army recruiters
promise romantic safe work to High School kids
and lead them in calisthenics
while baking cookies for a home coming Queen.
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Day In The Life -- I printed out an 8.5 by 11 fantastic photo that Judy took of Bryce Canyon in Utah. We framed it and hung it up on our bedroom wall as an amazing reminder of just how creative natural erosion can be.
Mt friend Rob wrote in his blog about the cool places that mostly don't exist anymore. He reminded me of those unslick, uncommerical, coffee houses, bookstores, eateries and basement tape record stores of the late 60's, 60's and early 70's. They had a certain soul that created more soul. They are gone with the capitalist wind.
I am reading my friend Pun's memoir. It seems I belong to a secret society of friends who publish their autobiographies. I've read a bunch (and written one), I like this literary output because interesting lives make for interesting books.
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Replacement Killers -- A Chinese hitman, in an unnamed American City, is contracted to kill a policeman. The cop had killed the son of a ruling Chinese gangster and Mr. Big naturally wants revenge. But the professional killer can't do the hit, he turns soft hearted because he spotted the cop's wife and kid. Rather than find another killer, Mr. Big turns all his energies on the disobedient hitman. An endless and artistically filmed gun battle ensues, corpses keep piling up, dialog is outrun by death and you can't help thinking that maybe it would have been more humane if the hired assassin had just done his job.
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stew at 8:34 AM
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wWednesday, June 15, 2005 |
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My central website is http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew. For information on Stew Albert's new book --"Who The Hell Is Stew Albert?" go to http://www.redhen.org/stewalbert.htm or Amazon.com. If you want a signed copy get in touch with me at stewa@aol.com Most of my movie reviews written during the period of my Hep C chemotherapy appear at: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/stewreviews.html Thank you Third Page
And if you want to book me for a speech, you can contact the Yippie Speakers Bureau via http://yippie.mindvox.com
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Boot Hill
Friedman figures
we gotta double the American boots in Iraq
cause
we're losing the cheapskate war.
Our antiwar movement ought to be supporting Tom
declaring:
"Withdraw all troops
and
ship in twice as many boots."
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Day In The Life -- Judy and I scored a great bar-b-qued chicken at Costco last night. The place wasn't its usual mad house. And it's good to know that Costco has good labor relations that in no way resemble the evil Wal.Mart. My friend Robert Greenwald is making a documentary film on Wal.Mart, Let's hope he makes the monster pay some dues.
Some guy with Hep C got a year in prison for knowingly spitting on a cop. The judge added many months to his sentence because he thought spitting was a way to spread the disease. Odd that even the spitter's lawyer did not object because nobody ever got Hep C via spit and saliva. You can only get it, if your blood mixes with Hep C infected blood. Most people know nothing about the illness, including many who have it. Let's hope that the prisoner gets free chemo while doing his time.
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A Time To Kill -- In this film, the new south battles with the old. A young black girl is raped by two drunken early 20's racist rednecks. And her father takes justice into his own hands by shooting down and killing his daughter's brutalizers. A white lawyer takes his case and all the hidden but still latently present racism of southern and American history becomes starkly visible. The KKK is reborn and with it, race hatred and terror. Based on John Grisham's novel, the film explores the complexity of racism, even as it's practiced by liberals. A time to kill centers on fast paced courtroom drama and it's very well acted and directed. I did have some problems with the portrayal of the NAACP and a Jewish lawyer. The film uses them as a counter balance to the Klan and in some scenes you might think they were just as bad. There are fine performances from both son and father Sutherland and Sandra Bullock is smart and sexy.
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stew at 9:07 AM
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