Curved Angles

Imploding

2010-12-13T14:27:00.000-08:00

Curved Angles
Miami, FL
December 12th, 2010
9:52 am

Our nation is imploding, and most are blind to the facts, or electing to ignore what their eyes cannot digest.

Continuing the Bush era tax cuts will cost $900 billions dollars over the the next two years, think of all the health care that money could buy. How many more shoes can the wealthy fit in a closet, how many more steaks in their bellies?

We are in decline, our education funded by property taxes and lotto tickets rather than a budget. A basic standard of health care is denied to many. The Republicans screamed about a budget deficit, now their shady underside fully exposed. The USA rates number one in one intangible only: egotism even as the propaganda churns and churns, feeding the masses, those who haven't a clue what they are missing, accepting instead a third world standard of living.

Recommend Recommended by 90 Readers

Stardust movie-Twinkle Toes DeNiro

2010-07-19T19:42:00.000-07:00

Stardust, 2007

De Niro is superb, equal to Robin Williams in the Fosse scene of Bird Cage! Cocky, outrageous and charming.

After promising the beautiful Victoria (Sienna Miller) that he'll retrieve a fallen star to secure her love, young Tristan (Charlie Cox) journeys to a magical world to win her heart in this charming fantasy based on Neil Gaiman's novel. Along the way, he battles a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), an evil witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) and other assorted goblins and ghosts. Peter O'Toole, Claire Danes and Rupert Everett co-star. Directed by Matthew Vaughn

Cast:
Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Claire Danes, Peter O'Toole, Mark Williams, Nathaniel Parker, Ricky Gervais

2010-07-11T12:16:00.000-07:00

CSW

2010-07-08T14:32:00.000-07:00

Prediction and Literature

2010-04-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Today's early morning headlines report: Oil From Spill Is Reported to Have Reached the Coast. New York Times

From Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, pg 197.

“Please join me now in a Meditation on our Fish brethren: … We hold in our minds the Great Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico; and the Great Dead Zone in Lake Erie; and the Great Dead Zone in the Black Sea; and the desolate Grand Banks of Newfoundland, where the Cod once abounded; and the Great Barrier Reef, now dying and bleaching white and breaking apart.”

How can we, the human species, be so pathetically stupid, and greedy and shortsighted?

Love that Gray!

2010-04-02T16:21:00.000-07:00

It's official, from The New York Times, Young Trendsetters Streak Their Hair With Gray. Well, forget the young, but it is all natural and way cool, with 1950's eyeglasses, the real McCoy.
"Women warming to the arctic look are streaking, tipping or bleaching their hair in tones from Warhol white to Brillo steel." Whippeee!

GRAVITY, a hoot!

2009-08-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

Ellen and Gary Bukstel go for it, no shame!

They Lost My Vote, Ellen Bukstel

2009-08-07T12:13:00.000-07:00

Clever lyrics and music!

THEY as plural, the all-around-best

2009-07-26T09:49:00.000-07:00

I don't yet twitter, but am thinking about it -- with a a 140 character limit, every pronoun counts. According to a recent New York Times article, All-Purpose Pronoun, THEY is the Man for All Seasons.

Bye-Bye, Sarah. Whoosh!

2009-07-03T13:49:00.000-07:00

Woopiedoo, There's a great article in Vanity Fair, check it out. Sneak preview by Todd S. Purdum, thank you!

"Palin is unlike any other national figure in modern American life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the rogues’ gallery of political relatives. By comparison, Billy Carter, Donald Nixon, and Roger Clinton seem like avatars of circumspection. Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure."

Robin Williams at His Best

2008-12-14T18:49:00.000-08:00

The Illinois Gov. Scene: Al Capone on Steroids

2008-12-09T10:46:00.000-08:00

What a history lesson from Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. Holy moley, Al Capone on steroids, minus the murders, so far. His conviction is larger than selling Obama’s senate seat, it is huge — firing editors from the Chicago Tribute, bribes to build hospitals; payoffs everywhere. Read the entire legal deal, will take about an hour. Then, a call to all WRITERS, fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, comedy! — cash in, be the first on your block! Click here for PDF Criminal Complaint.

Opening night, Art Basel Miami

2008-12-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

“Is freedom therapeutic? ... “Why is art the only space of expression for a luxurious and exclusive principle of reality that makes abnormality into a source of wealth and a desirable condition?” NYT article

SNL Covers Detroit Bailout

2008-11-24T15:38:00.000-08:00

Hijacking Saturday Night Live?

2008-11-23T18:24:00.000-08:00

I was so engrossed in the video Constantine’s Sword that I forgot to watch Saturday Night Live (11/22/08) missing a fine mockery of Detroit’s automakers bailout. The SNL skit is not yet posted online. Less than 24 hours after it aired, The New York Times reported that Detroit’s problems are intricately woven … “To the long list of troubles plaguing the financial industry, add three big ones — make that Big Three ones.” They owe more than $100 billion and the actual risk remains unknown. Billions here and there and everywhere. WHEW, talk about double whammies, triple-dipple whammies. And hijacking SNL? Follow the money.

After Election ZOMBIES, Onion Humor

2008-11-12T11:36:00.000-08:00

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Reality check: biking for Obama in Florida

2008-11-05T07:45:00.000-08:00

Oh so campy, and fun! People waved, wanted pictures with the "bike lady" after casting their ballot. One was particularly tender, a father with his ten- year-old daughter, he probably voting for the first time. I'd decorated and rode my bike around two polling precincts in South Florida. Pin read: Grandma for Obama. Reality, Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Wow. Seriously, wow. Finally, CHANGE.

Important Musical Recital from a Hockey Mom

2008-11-02T20:29:00.000-08:00

Caribou Barbie and McCain in Pink, Commies!!!

2008-10-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

Still can't make up his mind, this morning PINK McCain / Palin signs waved outside polling places in Miami, Florida. I remember when being pink equated with communism ... as in "McCarthyism," coined in 1950 in reference to Joe McCarthy's witch hunts. Today the term is used more generally to describe demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents. Another backfire for McCain, trying to snare women, but sending a different message instead!

Vetting the Vet - Check out the Video

2008-10-29T18:01:00.000-07:00

While McCain Looked Away, Florida Shifted

2008-10-24T20:18:00.000-07:00

Long early voting lines dispirit Republicans in Florida.

Say it isn't true!

2008-10-24T17:12:00.000-07:00

Enjoy this clip from Will Farrell and Tina Fey on last night’s Saturday Night Live Thursday Night Special.

Colin Powell Endorses Obama -- See the Video!

2008-10-19T14:28:00.000-07:00

Colin Powell Endorses Obama

2008-10-19T08:03:00.000-07:00

I was pulling palm fronds, noticed another missing Obama sign from my side yard, came in for a replacement, Meet the Press had Former Sec. of State backing Barack Obama. Read Dowd's column. Also view photo in New Yorker.

Banks’ Bailout Unlikely to Crimp Executive Pay

2008-10-15T15:38:00.000-07:00

Oh no!!! Read it, here!

Kashkari tells bankers they'll find a way around pay restrictions

2008-10-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

7:35 PM EST Oct. 14. — Shocking news from the PBS Newshour about the bailout injection of 250 billion into banks. Guest panelist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research reported that Neel Kashkari, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's surprise choice to lead the nation's $700 billion rescue plan, (designated as the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability) held a meeting with banking officials saying not to worry, they’d find a way around restrictive pay packages! Hopefully the entire panel discussion will be available on the PBS site.

Femafication, Krugman's term, ain't it grand!

2008-10-14T10:53:00.000-07:00

From Nobel Prize Winner in Economics: Femafication of government under President Bush contributed to Mr. Paulson’s fumble. All across the executive branch, knowledgeable professionals have been driven out; there may not have been anyone left at Treasury with the stature and background to tell Mr. Paulson that he wasn’t making sense.The New York Times.

Also, more from NYT. The American people have to decide what kind of country they want. Do they want one in which the top 1 percent hauled in more than 21 percent of all personal income in 2005? Do they want a country in which ... the tax system “now levies the poor, the middle class and even the upper middle class to subsidize the rich”?

Why was this blog busted?

2008-10-07T08:40:00.000-07:00

Why was this blog put under review by Blogger? I've not violated any rules, it is not spam or a link farm. Is this part of the McCain conspiracy to remove our freedom of speech? It's ironic that this happened during the American Library Association's Banned Book Week.

Saturday Night Live, The End of Days With The Maverick

2008-10-05T08:22:00.001-07:00

Gosh darn it, from a very young age my greatest love has always been Jews and Cuban food. And for all those hockey moms, Joe six-packs, and gotcha media, I'll shoot wolves from a helicopter.

Katie, I'd like to use my lifeline

2008-09-28T16:34:00.001-07:00

All About Energy, Bail Outs and Rape Kits

2008-09-28T12:35:00.000-07:00

Meltdown and The Bush Doctrine

From the New York Times and other media:

Into a Thicket

2008-09-26T08:31:00.001-07:00

This senator intended to ride back into Washington on Thursday, Sept. 25, as a leader who had put aside presidential politics to help broker a solution to the financial crisis. Instead he found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public message for how to bring it to an end.

Some ride.