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"...IF THE GRAVY'S GOOD ENOUGH."

Hopefully you have not heard this 'saying' :*"One can even eat s--t if the gravy's good enough"*I've recently heard that saying bastardized : *" You can eat anything when there's enough catsup on it"*Yeah, well not anything and certainly not  Mr. Catsup or should I CORRECTLY say : "KETCHUP" ?Sadly, …

ON THE RIVERFRONT

 Just watched "On The Waterfront" (1954, Directed by Elia Kazan. With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb,Herman Munster, Eva Marie Saint, etc). I had forgotten how  sad some parts of this movie are to me---and the messages, ah the messages, intended, imagined, etc.When I first titled this blog, my …

DNC CONVENTION MUSIC SUGGESTIONS-PT ONE

__BARACK'S:__PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC , WHITEBOYPAINT IT BLACKWHITER SHADE OF PALESAY IT LOUD: I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUDTHE GREAT PRETENDERTINY BUBBLES I THINK IT'S SO GROOVY NOW, THAT PEOPLE ARE FINALLY GETTING TOGETHER(REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS)FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIMETHE KID IS HOT TONIGHTBORN IN THE USA(?)WHAT'S YOUR NAMELITTLE …

IN HIS SIGHTS by Kate Brennan

IN HIS SIGHTS by Kate Brennan“Was it cathartic?” That’s the most frequent question I hear now that I’ve finished writing In His Sights, the memoir which chronicles my experience as a stalking victim. The eyes behind the query generally share a common reflection: They’re looking for a yes.I always disappoint. …

SO-CALLED 24 HR TV NEWS

The other eve I was trying to get some current information on Russia's unprovoked invasion of Georgia,a sovereign nation-all I could get  on CNN and elsewhere, was  nonsense about John Edwards'  f****** some trollop while John's wife was getting f***** by breast cancer. Tonight, Sunday night, I saw George Bush …

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PREEMPTED

 TONIGHT'S  BLOG  WAS  PREEMPTED BY :__Dinner At Eight (1933)__  A masterfully-directed, poignant melodramatic comedy by director George Cukor and producer David O. Selznick, Dinner at Eight (1933) was filled with a tremendous cast of stars (inspired by the previous year's Grand Hotel (1932)) - who are all invited to a …