6/10/20
BEST SELLING LITERARY AUTHOR STEPHEN KING QUITS FACEBOOK
BBC NEWS TECHNOLOGY : STEPHEN KING QUITS FACEBOOK by Jane Wakefield
Excerpt: Novelist Stephen King has quit Facebook, saying he was uncomfortable with the "flood of false information allowed in its political advertising." He also said he was not confident the social network was protecting "user's privacy." He made the announcement on Twitter, where he as 6.5 million followers.
6/8/20
NETFLIX's POLITICALLY CORRECT SERIES "HOLLYWOOD" A FANTASY
I indulged myself in this series, which is supposed to be set in Hollywood after World War II. I love historically correct exteriors, interiors, clothing (costuming), hairstyles, and so on, so I stuck with it. It seemed to be an excuse for displaying suggestions of homosexual sex.
I kept thinking about how Netflix often nears pornography and how offended some of our American population is by this; Netflix doesn't care about loosing or offending some viewers.
Let me save you the time spent watching it.
It was so politically correct it was ridiculously inaccurate. It was the result of idealistic but ignorant script writing - a clear agenda - not based in historical accuracy.
Let's start with the language. The young female Black actress talks about herself as a "person of color." Black people in the 1940's were not called persons of color (to mean anyone not considered to be "white") nor were they called African-American or Black. They were called Negroes and called themselves Negroes. Into the 1960's some of the older people still referred to themselves that way.
Then there is a part of dialogue in which the actor refers to "the conversation" using it in the 2020 way. Nobody in the 1940's thought conversation was anything other than talking to one or more people.
In the fantasy that this series is, feminism and gay liberation as well as racist issues are all part of the plot. The characters are considered to be heroes and heroines as they move these ideologies forward. Actually in real life such aspirations started happening twenty or more years in the future. For instance, female studio executives and studio heads are a result of the thrust of feminism and women's liberation of the 1970's. But they got it right when they suggested Hollywood was a Jewish-made town and most all of the first stage of female studio executives were Jewish women.
Multiple characters were based on people who are dead and research apparently included tabloids. These characters include Rock Hudson and agent Henry Willson and as characters they are used to give us more sex.
I note that Scotty Bowers, the man who a couple years back wrote the memoir Full Service, about a gas station in Hollywood that was a front for a prostitution service, is named as a character. I read Scotty's book and he said he never took money for hooking people up, that he did so for pleasure and friendship, but he's portrayed as a failed actor who took a 50% cut.
I guess this is one of the reasons that I'm so focused on documentaries and memoirs. I'm up for some speculation and if a series is clearly labeled fantasy at least I know what I'm in for. Know those popular posters that have James Dean riding Marilyn Monroe on the back of his motorcycle? It never happened. Hollywood - the Netflix series - is like that.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
I kept thinking about how Netflix often nears pornography and how offended some of our American population is by this; Netflix doesn't care about loosing or offending some viewers.
Let me save you the time spent watching it.
It was so politically correct it was ridiculously inaccurate. It was the result of idealistic but ignorant script writing - a clear agenda - not based in historical accuracy.
Let's start with the language. The young female Black actress talks about herself as a "person of color." Black people in the 1940's were not called persons of color (to mean anyone not considered to be "white") nor were they called African-American or Black. They were called Negroes and called themselves Negroes. Into the 1960's some of the older people still referred to themselves that way.
Then there is a part of dialogue in which the actor refers to "the conversation" using it in the 2020 way. Nobody in the 1940's thought conversation was anything other than talking to one or more people.
In the fantasy that this series is, feminism and gay liberation as well as racist issues are all part of the plot. The characters are considered to be heroes and heroines as they move these ideologies forward. Actually in real life such aspirations started happening twenty or more years in the future. For instance, female studio executives and studio heads are a result of the thrust of feminism and women's liberation of the 1970's. But they got it right when they suggested Hollywood was a Jewish-made town and most all of the first stage of female studio executives were Jewish women.
Multiple characters were based on people who are dead and research apparently included tabloids. These characters include Rock Hudson and agent Henry Willson and as characters they are used to give us more sex.
I note that Scotty Bowers, the man who a couple years back wrote the memoir Full Service, about a gas station in Hollywood that was a front for a prostitution service, is named as a character. I read Scotty's book and he said he never took money for hooking people up, that he did so for pleasure and friendship, but he's portrayed as a failed actor who took a 50% cut.
I guess this is one of the reasons that I'm so focused on documentaries and memoirs. I'm up for some speculation and if a series is clearly labeled fantasy at least I know what I'm in for. Know those popular posters that have James Dean riding Marilyn Monroe on the back of his motorcycle? It never happened. Hollywood - the Netflix series - is like that.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
6/1/20
BLACK LIVES MATTER BUT LOOTING BURNING and VIOLENCE MAKE PROTESTS A MOOT POINT
I was busy helping a friend garden. We didn't know that riots had begun, that looting, burning, and destruction had replaced the expectation of a peaceable BLACK LIVES MATTER demonstration around the country. We didn't know that Los Angeles had an 8 o'clock curfew until well after our meal together, when we turned on the news. Watching the coverage, I was disgusted. Where was the Black Lives Matter leadership? Why were individual city mayors speaking up but no-one from Black Lives Matter?
A couple hours later, I got my dog and went to bed. I shut out the lights and was laying back when a boom and bright flash of light zipped past the curtains - a blast aimed between houses that illuminated the room.
My neighbor is Black. He has a White wife. He has a Black son. They are nice people. His work van is out at the curb. Shit! Was someone in the neighborhood attacking them?
I put the lights back on. Got out of bed. Worried, I opened the front door and looked out for the possible source of the blast. Across the way a family was having a birthday party. They are Hispanic. There were lots of adults and children over there. Why wait until past 10:30 at night on a Sunday to set off fireworks? I watched as a large white blast went up over the street between us flowering into a stadium-worthy sparkler. Needless to say, this is illegal behavior and insensitive to both Coronavirus-19 and the fact that people were pillaging all over town. Taking advantage that no police would come. Setting nerves already raw on edge. What a horrible example for all those children! Their back yard is small. What if they had been injured or set my neighbors house on fire?
I was tired from yard work so I slept.
This morning I woke to watch videos of destruction all over the country. Countless businesses - many small one family businesses - looted or destructed.
I learned that a church in Washington D.C. built in 1815 in which just about every U.S. President has worshipped once, was burned down. I think as a child I toured that church on a trip to Washington D.C. The Lincoln Monument graffitied?!
I mean, the LINCOLN Monument!?! Lincoln, credited for freeing the slaves.
HOW DOES THIS HELPS BLACK LIVES MATTER?
I know the answer. So do you.
It doesn't help whatsoever. Actually, it's made things worse.
It HURTS the cause.
HOW DOES THIS HELPS THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY?
Did anyone who looted ever intend to BUY what they took?
Well, good luck getting hired.
I saw expensive vehicles pulling up and looters throwing things into trunks and getting in and driving away.
TELL ME HOW SOMEONE WHO CAN AFFORD TO KEEP A CAR can't afford to buy their tennis shoes, their cell phones, their computers? Because I've been too poor to own a car or buy new shoes and have gone without a personal computer or a phone and I know it's not easy - or cool - but it can be done without resorting to criminality.
SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
For doing it, for helping it, for putting up with it.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
A couple hours later, I got my dog and went to bed. I shut out the lights and was laying back when a boom and bright flash of light zipped past the curtains - a blast aimed between houses that illuminated the room.
My neighbor is Black. He has a White wife. He has a Black son. They are nice people. His work van is out at the curb. Shit! Was someone in the neighborhood attacking them?
I put the lights back on. Got out of bed. Worried, I opened the front door and looked out for the possible source of the blast. Across the way a family was having a birthday party. They are Hispanic. There were lots of adults and children over there. Why wait until past 10:30 at night on a Sunday to set off fireworks? I watched as a large white blast went up over the street between us flowering into a stadium-worthy sparkler. Needless to say, this is illegal behavior and insensitive to both Coronavirus-19 and the fact that people were pillaging all over town. Taking advantage that no police would come. Setting nerves already raw on edge. What a horrible example for all those children! Their back yard is small. What if they had been injured or set my neighbors house on fire?
I was tired from yard work so I slept.
This morning I woke to watch videos of destruction all over the country. Countless businesses - many small one family businesses - looted or destructed.
I learned that a church in Washington D.C. built in 1815 in which just about every U.S. President has worshipped once, was burned down. I think as a child I toured that church on a trip to Washington D.C. The Lincoln Monument graffitied?!
I mean, the LINCOLN Monument!?! Lincoln, credited for freeing the slaves.
HOW DOES THIS HELPS BLACK LIVES MATTER?
I know the answer. So do you.
It doesn't help whatsoever. Actually, it's made things worse.
It HURTS the cause.
HOW DOES THIS HELPS THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY?
Did anyone who looted ever intend to BUY what they took?
Well, good luck getting hired.
I saw expensive vehicles pulling up and looters throwing things into trunks and getting in and driving away.
TELL ME HOW SOMEONE WHO CAN AFFORD TO KEEP A CAR can't afford to buy their tennis shoes, their cell phones, their computers? Because I've been too poor to own a car or buy new shoes and have gone without a personal computer or a phone and I know it's not easy - or cool - but it can be done without resorting to criminality.
SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
For doing it, for helping it, for putting up with it.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
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