(This will be my last post until after the Easter/ Passover Season!)
Have you ever called a newspaper or tabloid to give them a Tip on a Hot News story?
Last week I encountered what I considered to be a very newsworthy local story with national and international interest.
I met someone who was a few days into a HUNGER STRIKE for a social justice cause. He had written a book too - about human trafficking - though his hunger strike was to protest the President of the United States, President Obama, from recognizing the newly (corruptly) elected Armenian who has some human rights violations on his resume.
The HUNGER STRIKER was my kind of human being.
I realized this: I have been the FAN of so very many MUSIC MAKERS and WRITERS. I've co-author a blog about music of a certain era with Wes Bryan since 2007 !, and I'm the first to read the latest bios/memoirs books and about music makers.
But what I really admire - my heroes and heroines - are always people who STAND FOR SOMETHING. I actually admire people who STAND FOR SOMETHING even when the something is not something I agree with than people who DON"T STAND FOR ANYTHING. (Example. As a kid I was a total Beatles FAN but my HEROINES were Leaders of the Feminist Movement.)
(To meander here amoment, I recall a College class I took about poetry during which the question of separating a human being from the work came up. It seemed to be that Literature expected the work and the person to stand alone. Thus you could get a Doctorate in Literature Deconstructing someone else's work without ever Interviewing them. I had enough Journalist in me to be very bothered by that.)
So, I decided this man needed some press as he weakened. I sent two e-mails to local television news programs, one of which got an automated "Thanks!" message. Then I called three local news providers. The only live person I encountered was at a community college news paper where a man was said they would "Look into it."
The absolute worst was when I called Fox News. The man I spoke to was condescending, impatient (even though I had written out what I wanted to report in one small paragraph).
I said "How many people actually sit inside an RV and HUNGER STRIKE to make a point to a U.S. President?" This Fox news guy didn't even fake he cared. He answered a few other calls coming in, and if he wasn't the tip line, he sure wasn't transferring me to one. He said, "It doesn't matter because I have no one to send out to cover that."
On my way home I was hungry. On my way home I was concerned about my fat gut rather than HAVING MORE GUTS!
As I pondered what I might cook for dinner, I wondered what it must be like to go several days without food. Lately it seems I've been so afraid to feel hunger pangs that I eat before I can feel them.
I hoped this man had done his research and taken medical science on how to HUNGER STRIKE into as much consideration as inspiration by others who have done so. I started thinking that I WANTED HIM ON NATIONAL NEWS if only so HE COULD EAT AGAIN!
And I was glad I had left the Journalism program I was in years ago to Major in Creative Writing instead.
3/20/13
JO DEURBROUCK Quotation
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”
― Jo Deurbrouck
― Jo Deurbrouck
3/17/13
THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE OHIO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
This film staring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson was really SWEET!
I loved the historical value of it, the 1950's, the days when women used their literary talents and musical talents to write jingles. These women entered contests to win prizes small and large and a group of them, including a woman in an iron lung, formed a sort of support/writer's group too!
Evelyn Ryan, was a real live Defiance, Ohio housewife and mother of ten, who managed to win the down payment of their house and years later save it from foreclosure, due to her winning spirit. Rarely sorry for herself or their poverty, Evelyn was the kind of woman that isn't around much anymore. Her strongest talent may be an ability to forgive and move on.
Another strong positive on this film is the unsentimental but revealing way Evelyn Ryan's plight as a housewife and mother of ten in the 1950's is determined by what we would identify as prevailing sexism in American culture.
That wasn't so long ago.
I loved the historical value of it, the 1950's, the days when women used their literary talents and musical talents to write jingles. These women entered contests to win prizes small and large and a group of them, including a woman in an iron lung, formed a sort of support/writer's group too!
Evelyn Ryan, was a real live Defiance, Ohio housewife and mother of ten, who managed to win the down payment of their house and years later save it from foreclosure, due to her winning spirit. Rarely sorry for herself or their poverty, Evelyn was the kind of woman that isn't around much anymore. Her strongest talent may be an ability to forgive and move on.
Another strong positive on this film is the unsentimental but revealing way Evelyn Ryan's plight as a housewife and mother of ten in the 1950's is determined by what we would identify as prevailing sexism in American culture.
That wasn't so long ago.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
reposted April 2021
3/13/13
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND - BASED ON CHUCK BARRIS'S AUTOBIO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM and BOOK REVIEW
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND - BASED ON CHUCK BARRIS'S AUTOBIO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA DVD and BOOK REVIEW
Was Chuck Barris, game show host, game show INVENTOR, songwriter ("Palisades Park") a CIA Assassin for hire?
After seeing this film, which I enjoyed, I ordered the very confessional book. I wanted to read the words Chuck Barris wrote and also see how much of his autobio /memoir was in or out of the film. Turned out that the film followed the book rather closely, especially the dialogue!
I wanted to read C.B. about his involvement into CIA operations that resulted in his killing 33 people.
Although I almost never rely on Wikis for my encyclopedia because I have found so much opinion, or so much druck quoted from lies in books referenced in Wikis about celebrities, I checked the Wiki on Barris. It said the CIA denied that Barris ever worked for them.
Yea, well why would the CIA ever admit that anyone ever killed for them?
The film leaves me with the notion that maybe, just maybe, Chuck was recruited by someone who worked for the CIA or had a side business, and that he was under a very incorrect impression that he was working directly for the CIA. The book sure didn't give that notion. The film blurred the possibility that he had killed his superior while the book said someone else killed the man and Chuck killed a mole to revenge that death. The mole (acted by Julia Roberts) is killed by switching poison in the movie. In the book he kills her with a gun.
What makes anyone able to kill people who they have no personal issue with? In this case money and patriotism and the game of the hunt.
Inventor of now very vintage television shows such as the Dating Game, the Gong Show, Barris wanted more in life, and was perhaps a bored genius. Was killing people for money what kept him interested in life? No, but perhaps what was challenged by a lifestyle that was at once comedic and tragic was his notions of life itself. It's value. If any.
Chuck Barris wrote without apology. He didn't excuse his womanizing or sexism, or anything else he did.
That is a lesson for me.
C 2012 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
Was Chuck Barris, game show host, game show INVENTOR, songwriter ("Palisades Park") a CIA Assassin for hire?
After seeing this film, which I enjoyed, I ordered the very confessional book. I wanted to read the words Chuck Barris wrote and also see how much of his autobio /memoir was in or out of the film. Turned out that the film followed the book rather closely, especially the dialogue!
I wanted to read C.B. about his involvement into CIA operations that resulted in his killing 33 people.
Although I almost never rely on Wikis for my encyclopedia because I have found so much opinion, or so much druck quoted from lies in books referenced in Wikis about celebrities, I checked the Wiki on Barris. It said the CIA denied that Barris ever worked for them.
Yea, well why would the CIA ever admit that anyone ever killed for them?
The film leaves me with the notion that maybe, just maybe, Chuck was recruited by someone who worked for the CIA or had a side business, and that he was under a very incorrect impression that he was working directly for the CIA. The book sure didn't give that notion. The film blurred the possibility that he had killed his superior while the book said someone else killed the man and Chuck killed a mole to revenge that death. The mole (acted by Julia Roberts) is killed by switching poison in the movie. In the book he kills her with a gun.
What makes anyone able to kill people who they have no personal issue with? In this case money and patriotism and the game of the hunt.
Inventor of now very vintage television shows such as the Dating Game, the Gong Show, Barris wanted more in life, and was perhaps a bored genius. Was killing people for money what kept him interested in life? No, but perhaps what was challenged by a lifestyle that was at once comedic and tragic was his notions of life itself. It's value. If any.
Chuck Barris wrote without apology. He didn't excuse his womanizing or sexism, or anything else he did.
That is a lesson for me.
C 2012 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
3/9/13
BEFORE THERE WAS DAN BROWN THERE WAS MALACHY MARTIN
I'm closely following the news about the resignation of Pope Benedict and the election of a new Pope as are millions of others in the world. Personally, having known people who could not come to terms with their limitations and proceeded to their incompetance in this life, I think his admission of weakness and inability to carry on, at an age when many people have been retired for 20 years, to be honorable.
The story is full of real world conflict.
Over the last several years I have met too many anti-Catholics who desperately wanted to believe that Dan Brown's fiction books were real.
If you are presently in the mood to read fiction or non-fiction about the world of the Vatican, I strongly suggest that you read MALACHY MARTIN.
Here's the link to his official site which has been held on the net by a devout fan of Malachy's since his death, where you can read about a man who was a true Vatican insider, a holy man, once an exorcist, who retired into private life and became a writer of well-selling books. Paging through WINDSWEPT HOUSE now.
Malachy Martin Official
The story is full of real world conflict.
Over the last several years I have met too many anti-Catholics who desperately wanted to believe that Dan Brown's fiction books were real.
If you are presently in the mood to read fiction or non-fiction about the world of the Vatican, I strongly suggest that you read MALACHY MARTIN.
Here's the link to his official site which has been held on the net by a devout fan of Malachy's since his death, where you can read about a man who was a true Vatican insider, a holy man, once an exorcist, who retired into private life and became a writer of well-selling books. Paging through WINDSWEPT HOUSE now.
Malachy Martin Official
3/6/13
3/3/13
SCARY BIG BROTHER USE OF CELL PHONE! TEXT: THIS IS THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM!
I was with a friend at a library the other day and as you know most libraries require that you do not answer or make calls in the library.
It's distracting to other people and a Library Rule that I wish the librarians would enforce at all times, meaning that I notice there are some people they seem to be afraid to approach who take and make calls loudly all the time and others who try to comply (me) who seem to be held to a higher standard.
That said, there is no such thing as Silence in Libraries any more. I no longer expect it. Overall, the world has become a noisier place, although much of the wordly noise is drowned out by self selected noise transmitted to the ear through earphones.
My friend had her Smart Phone, an android, in Silence mode and on. As we browsed the shelves for movies, we thought we heard, but she did not feel, a vibratory sound.
We asked a man also browsing if maybe his phone was ringing. He said, no he didn't even have a phone.
A little later my friend took her Smart Phone out and on the screen appeared a exclaimation mark on a red background. This was an alert. She looked and of all things, it said....
So, now the government or the radio or television stations or the cell phone provider, some organization, is able to send these emergency alerts to people's cell phones even when they are in silence mode. They buzz on through the options you selected!
I have more questions. What if the phone was off? What if there was a real emergency (nuclear warhead or tornado headed our way, or maybe a meteor like the one that whooshed over Russia recently about to hit the roof of the library or The End Times, which I find fascinating but don't believe in) and we didn't answer the phone?
Will her phone be buzzing and alerting every time there is an earthquake; earthquakes happen all over the world all the time, most harmless.
Can the 911 people call us and say that our very own house is on fire?
As is, when we go to the library the phone wants to automatically use WIFI (the Internet) to make and take calls instead of what was paid for - the cell phone network.
Take my advice. What this world needs is more restaurants with heavily curtained and sound proofed table alcoves for conversations, not more privacy invasion and human tracking via phones.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
It's distracting to other people and a Library Rule that I wish the librarians would enforce at all times, meaning that I notice there are some people they seem to be afraid to approach who take and make calls loudly all the time and others who try to comply (me) who seem to be held to a higher standard.
That said, there is no such thing as Silence in Libraries any more. I no longer expect it. Overall, the world has become a noisier place, although much of the wordly noise is drowned out by self selected noise transmitted to the ear through earphones.
My friend had her Smart Phone, an android, in Silence mode and on. As we browsed the shelves for movies, we thought we heard, but she did not feel, a vibratory sound.
We asked a man also browsing if maybe his phone was ringing. He said, no he didn't even have a phone.
A little later my friend took her Smart Phone out and on the screen appeared a exclaimation mark on a red background. This was an alert. She looked and of all things, it said....
"THIS IS A TEST OF THE
EMERGENCY CELL PHONE SYSTEM!"
(i.e. I think linked to the EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM YOU SEE ON TV or HEAR ON RADIO.)
(i.e. I think linked to the EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM YOU SEE ON TV or HEAR ON RADIO.)
So, now the government or the radio or television stations or the cell phone provider, some organization, is able to send these emergency alerts to people's cell phones even when they are in silence mode. They buzz on through the options you selected!
I have more questions. What if the phone was off? What if there was a real emergency (nuclear warhead or tornado headed our way, or maybe a meteor like the one that whooshed over Russia recently about to hit the roof of the library or The End Times, which I find fascinating but don't believe in) and we didn't answer the phone?
Will her phone be buzzing and alerting every time there is an earthquake; earthquakes happen all over the world all the time, most harmless.
Can the 911 people call us and say that our very own house is on fire?
As is, when we go to the library the phone wants to automatically use WIFI (the Internet) to make and take calls instead of what was paid for - the cell phone network.
Take my advice. What this world needs is more restaurants with heavily curtained and sound proofed table alcoves for conversations, not more privacy invasion and human tracking via phones.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
2/27/13
DINNER RUSH : THE BEST MOB MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN : CHRISTINE TRZYNA DVD FILM REVIEW
DINNER RUSH : THE BEST MOB MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN : CHRISTINE TRZYNA DVD FILM REVIEW
Speaking of more restaurants with heavily curtained dining alcoves.
A Bob Giraldi Film, staring Danny Aiello. Written by screenwriters Rick Shaughnessy and Brian Kalata...
Lately I've become sensitive to editing, and this film was edited and filmed to have a reality TV sort of haywire. The camera and the action and the dialogue quickly moves through the film, interspersed with fast clips of restaurant reality; the ambiance on deck and the chaos of the kitchen.
It's all very effective, and perhaps because at times you feel a little hopped up to follow the story, a little confused. The the tension builds, and having seen a lot of mob movies you're expecting a murder at any time, but when it comes it's a surprise! You've been lulled.
Dinner Rush is perhaps the best mob/Mafia film I've ever seen. The plot revolves around bookie and restaurateur Louis Cropa acted by Danny Aiello, whose partner was recently killed by two young thugs from the Queens who want to take over some businesses, including the restaurant, and the turf. The bookie's son has a gambling habit and is in hock to these two thugs $13,000.
The restaurant is one of the hot spots of New York and an important critic has come to sample and write about the Nuevo Cuisine, while Louis mourns not only his partner but also the days when an Italian restaurant featured meat balls.
Louis himself is low key but, as all his loyal and some not so loyal employees know, his word is a command. Who will obey? Who won't?
Cut. Action. More action. Did you hear that? Overhear that? Did that just happen?
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
Speaking of more restaurants with heavily curtained dining alcoves.
A Bob Giraldi Film, staring Danny Aiello. Written by screenwriters Rick Shaughnessy and Brian Kalata...
Lately I've become sensitive to editing, and this film was edited and filmed to have a reality TV sort of haywire. The camera and the action and the dialogue quickly moves through the film, interspersed with fast clips of restaurant reality; the ambiance on deck and the chaos of the kitchen.
It's all very effective, and perhaps because at times you feel a little hopped up to follow the story, a little confused. The the tension builds, and having seen a lot of mob movies you're expecting a murder at any time, but when it comes it's a surprise! You've been lulled.
Dinner Rush is perhaps the best mob/Mafia film I've ever seen. The plot revolves around bookie and restaurateur Louis Cropa acted by Danny Aiello, whose partner was recently killed by two young thugs from the Queens who want to take over some businesses, including the restaurant, and the turf. The bookie's son has a gambling habit and is in hock to these two thugs $13,000.
The restaurant is one of the hot spots of New York and an important critic has come to sample and write about the Nuevo Cuisine, while Louis mourns not only his partner but also the days when an Italian restaurant featured meat balls.
Louis himself is low key but, as all his loyal and some not so loyal employees know, his word is a command. Who will obey? Who won't?
Cut. Action. More action. Did you hear that? Overhear that? Did that just happen?
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
2/23/13
THE PEOPLE'S PALACE : A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
A film by Kunhardt Productions and Thirteen/ New York C 2007
You read me bitch about LAPL?
Los Angeles Public Library can't compare with the New York Public Library, which still has an emphasis on being a research facility for the public's use.
Los Angeles Public Library's book purchases reflect a popular library view point. (This really hit me when I discovered a slew of Nadine Gordimer's books on a free book cart being given away because they hadn't been taken out enough over at the Studio City branch a few years ago.)
For many years and ongoing, I've suggested dozens of book purchases, some of the titles having been featured in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the LA Weekly, or the BOOK FAIR (once known as the UCLA LA TIMES BOOK FAIR now the USC LA TIMES BOOK FAIR) and though I'm told that all such suggestions are read, they must be read and then pitched (which rhymes with bitched) because I don't think a single suggestion I've made has resulted in a book purchase.
What is most in demand at NY circa 2007?
First drafts of now famous writer's works. Manuscripts that are, because they are not in a museum but a place where they are used, are conserved but also lent out for use.
Betty Frieden wrote at New York Public Library.
So did Bob Dylan.
There are thousands of original music scores housed at NYPL, John Cage's orchestrations being the most used and studied.
Copies of handwritten documents by Thomas Jefferson (he hand copied unedited Declarations of Independence for some of his friends so they could read it and then the official, published copies, to compair. George Washington's beer recipe...
Prior to the Andrew Carnegie endowment the library was unable to expand and go public. Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest, but he also believed in giving children a chance.
Today one of the most vital branches is the Schomberg center and their Black cultural, historical, literacy, and other efforts.
SCHOMBURG CENTER (NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) FOR BLACK CULTURE link!
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY link!
I 've benefited from Andrew Carnegie's largess in my lifetime. I don't have the Frequent Flyer miles or the friend with an empty nest required to go research in New York, but I wish.
You read me bitch about LAPL?
Los Angeles Public Library can't compare with the New York Public Library, which still has an emphasis on being a research facility for the public's use.
Los Angeles Public Library's book purchases reflect a popular library view point. (This really hit me when I discovered a slew of Nadine Gordimer's books on a free book cart being given away because they hadn't been taken out enough over at the Studio City branch a few years ago.)
For many years and ongoing, I've suggested dozens of book purchases, some of the titles having been featured in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the LA Weekly, or the BOOK FAIR (once known as the UCLA LA TIMES BOOK FAIR now the USC LA TIMES BOOK FAIR) and though I'm told that all such suggestions are read, they must be read and then pitched (which rhymes with bitched) because I don't think a single suggestion I've made has resulted in a book purchase.
What is most in demand at NY circa 2007?
First drafts of now famous writer's works. Manuscripts that are, because they are not in a museum but a place where they are used, are conserved but also lent out for use.
Betty Frieden wrote at New York Public Library.
So did Bob Dylan.
There are thousands of original music scores housed at NYPL, John Cage's orchestrations being the most used and studied.
Copies of handwritten documents by Thomas Jefferson (he hand copied unedited Declarations of Independence for some of his friends so they could read it and then the official, published copies, to compair. George Washington's beer recipe...
Prior to the Andrew Carnegie endowment the library was unable to expand and go public. Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest, but he also believed in giving children a chance.
Today one of the most vital branches is the Schomberg center and their Black cultural, historical, literacy, and other efforts.
SCHOMBURG CENTER (NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) FOR BLACK CULTURE link!
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY link!
I 've benefited from Andrew Carnegie's largess in my lifetime. I don't have the Frequent Flyer miles or the friend with an empty nest required to go research in New York, but I wish.
2/20/13
PATRICIA CORNWELL WINS LAWSUIT : FINANCIAL ADVISORS DIDN'T PROTECT HER WRITERLY ENVIRONMENT AMONG OTHER OFFENSES
This article is swirling around the net in various forms. Here's the link to the BBC News version.
Patricia Cornwell wins $51m deal over financial losses : BBC NEWS
ECERPT "...The lawsuit added that because Cornwell suffered from bipolar disorder - a condition she says her business managers were aware of - the author's "ability to write is dependent upon the ability to avoid distractions."
"A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, including her investments, is essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines," it says..."
Patricia Cornwell wins $51m deal over financial losses : BBC NEWS
ECERPT "...The lawsuit added that because Cornwell suffered from bipolar disorder - a condition she says her business managers were aware of - the author's "ability to write is dependent upon the ability to avoid distractions."
"A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, including her investments, is essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines," it says..."
2/16/13
THE SINGING DETECTIVE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
Loovved this movie, but I was sewing when I watched it the first time and thought I should watch it again to resolve some questions I had about the plot. I decided I wanted to understand the screenplay behind it.
I did watch it again and decided that was terrific, and not just because Robert Downey Junior is one of my favorite actors.
RD Jr. acts as Dan Dark, a pulp fiction writer who has been badly physically burned, and while in the hospital recovering, flashes back to episodes in his past fiction writing, which take place in the 1950's and uses music from the 1950's as a lead into memory.
As many writers can testify their real life experiences can also be used in or inspire fiction. So Dan Dark's memories cross into his real life as well. The confusion he experiences and which I experienced watching the film, which took artful editing and masterful writing (Screenplay by Dennis Potter) works, and some of the brutality is softer because the viewer knows these are fictive characters.
You know I won't ruin it by telling you the story, but if you haven't ever watched THE SINGING DETECTIVE, watch it - at least twice.
I did watch it again and decided that was terrific, and not just because Robert Downey Junior is one of my favorite actors.
RD Jr. acts as Dan Dark, a pulp fiction writer who has been badly physically burned, and while in the hospital recovering, flashes back to episodes in his past fiction writing, which take place in the 1950's and uses music from the 1950's as a lead into memory.
As many writers can testify their real life experiences can also be used in or inspire fiction. So Dan Dark's memories cross into his real life as well. The confusion he experiences and which I experienced watching the film, which took artful editing and masterful writing (Screenplay by Dennis Potter) works, and some of the brutality is softer because the viewer knows these are fictive characters.
You know I won't ruin it by telling you the story, but if you haven't ever watched THE SINGING DETECTIVE, watch it - at least twice.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
2/10/13
CORNELIA FUNKE Quote
"Stories never end. Even if the books like to pretend they do. The stories always go on. They don't end on the last page. Any more than they begin on the first page."
- Cornelia Funke
2/5/13
INTERNET JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : LAZY JOURNALISTS
LAZY JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : UNTOLD STORY
By Christine Trzyna
Once in a while I get hooked on a news story and follow it closely.
Recently I started reading everything I could find on the MISSONI MYSTERY.
As a recap, on about January 3rd/4th 2013, a small plane carrying the so called "iconic" Vittorio Missoni and five others disappeared in a cloud not long after take-off from a resort island off the coast of Venezuela. Missoni has been the world brand ambassador of this family owned Milan, Italy, fashion house which began about a half century ago and has had great impact on the design of knits and fashion. Though not inexpensive, in the last year they made a deal with Target and the less expensive products were sold out so very quickly and started appearing on e-Bay for more than they were priced. This is how well loved the designs the Missoni family makes are!
Not one article I read suggested that a fashion house enemy or perhaps the Italian Mafia were involved but I wondered. When the children of the presumed dead began to reach out to (unnamed) enemies and Twitter for help to find their parents, I really wanted more story. The idea of kidnapping was mentioned but hey, no mention of a ransom asked for.
Cell phone "anomalies" indicated that calls were sent from cell phones that would be underwater unless the passengers and plane had been hijacked by drug dealers, which apparently happens a whole lot in the area. Venezuela denied this as a possibility.
Just the cell phone anomaly story had me hooked and for days I watched the press for some explanation, which to this point I have not found. I tried to research this myself. How long can a cell phone withstand being underwater? Friends said some models can work though they have fallen in a swimming pool or toilet, but not thousands of feet under the sea.
I read dozens of articles that piggybacked on others, looking for the original source or the best source for information.
Then began, it turns out an inaccurate report that the pilot was not licenced. Even when this proved to be untrue it continued to be reported. I checked the publishing dates and there are a whole lot of so called journalists who should be ashamed of themselves. Are these journalists even researching, asking questions, or just reading each others articles and using new, inaccurate words as well as information over and over again for a month now?
The pilot was healthy, licenced, and well regarded in the area.
A fellow pilot thought maybe a thunderbolt felled the plane!
In the last few days it was revealed that a sports bag was found a couple hundred miles away from where the search had centered. It had been stowed away on the plane the Missoni party hired because there wasn't enough room on another plane. Nowhere in the press have I read that this sports bag was empty, wet, full of sand, found on a beach. The word ROCKS was used. It was apparently in good enough condition that the German Tourist who found it took it home and contacted the owner because the name tag inside was still intact. (Would you take home a soakinig wet empty bag?
Lazy journalists and HEADLINE WRITERS, started reporting this single sports bag as "Missoni Luggage" and "First Debris" of the plane! I see no reason to speculate like that in a journalistic article.
In dozens of articles journalists are confused as to whether the woman Missoni was traveling with was his "Wife," "Life-Partner," or "Companion." Apparently their relationship is so secret dspite the international fame of Vittorio that journalists can't find a marriage license, church record, or ask the family, before publishing.
It is a MYSTERY as to why no bodies, no luggage, no nothing - but the sports bag - has made its way up and over the sea after a month. Theories are that the plane is so far down that it cannot be detected by the usual means and so the family, Italy, and Venezuela have sent a submarine to look around the sea floor.
The sports bag found on rocks in good enough condition has lead the search to 200 miles away, perhaps the flotsam and jetsam moved with fast tides.
Meanwhile, as the show must go on, you can see the spring Missoni show that took place for Fashion Week in Milan recently on YouTube. However, you will be very lucky to find any speculation in the press on what the Missoni family's plan is if, indeed Vittorio is dead. I can understand, given the problems with the plane crash theory, the family is hesitating to be conclusive!
Meanwhile it is clear to me that in order to be FAST about POSTING AN ARTICLE / DEADLINE PRESSURE, accuracy is no longer a consideration!
C Christine Trzyna 2013 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.
By Christine Trzyna
Once in a while I get hooked on a news story and follow it closely.
Recently I started reading everything I could find on the MISSONI MYSTERY.
As a recap, on about January 3rd/4th 2013, a small plane carrying the so called "iconic" Vittorio Missoni and five others disappeared in a cloud not long after take-off from a resort island off the coast of Venezuela. Missoni has been the world brand ambassador of this family owned Milan, Italy, fashion house which began about a half century ago and has had great impact on the design of knits and fashion. Though not inexpensive, in the last year they made a deal with Target and the less expensive products were sold out so very quickly and started appearing on e-Bay for more than they were priced. This is how well loved the designs the Missoni family makes are!
Not one article I read suggested that a fashion house enemy or perhaps the Italian Mafia were involved but I wondered. When the children of the presumed dead began to reach out to (unnamed) enemies and Twitter for help to find their parents, I really wanted more story. The idea of kidnapping was mentioned but hey, no mention of a ransom asked for.
Cell phone "anomalies" indicated that calls were sent from cell phones that would be underwater unless the passengers and plane had been hijacked by drug dealers, which apparently happens a whole lot in the area. Venezuela denied this as a possibility.
Just the cell phone anomaly story had me hooked and for days I watched the press for some explanation, which to this point I have not found. I tried to research this myself. How long can a cell phone withstand being underwater? Friends said some models can work though they have fallen in a swimming pool or toilet, but not thousands of feet under the sea.
I read dozens of articles that piggybacked on others, looking for the original source or the best source for information.
Then began, it turns out an inaccurate report that the pilot was not licenced. Even when this proved to be untrue it continued to be reported. I checked the publishing dates and there are a whole lot of so called journalists who should be ashamed of themselves. Are these journalists even researching, asking questions, or just reading each others articles and using new, inaccurate words as well as information over and over again for a month now?
The pilot was healthy, licenced, and well regarded in the area.
A fellow pilot thought maybe a thunderbolt felled the plane!
In the last few days it was revealed that a sports bag was found a couple hundred miles away from where the search had centered. It had been stowed away on the plane the Missoni party hired because there wasn't enough room on another plane. Nowhere in the press have I read that this sports bag was empty, wet, full of sand, found on a beach. The word ROCKS was used. It was apparently in good enough condition that the German Tourist who found it took it home and contacted the owner because the name tag inside was still intact. (Would you take home a soakinig wet empty bag?
Lazy journalists and HEADLINE WRITERS, started reporting this single sports bag as "Missoni Luggage" and "First Debris" of the plane! I see no reason to speculate like that in a journalistic article.
In dozens of articles journalists are confused as to whether the woman Missoni was traveling with was his "Wife," "Life-Partner," or "Companion." Apparently their relationship is so secret dspite the international fame of Vittorio that journalists can't find a marriage license, church record, or ask the family, before publishing.
It is a MYSTERY as to why no bodies, no luggage, no nothing - but the sports bag - has made its way up and over the sea after a month. Theories are that the plane is so far down that it cannot be detected by the usual means and so the family, Italy, and Venezuela have sent a submarine to look around the sea floor.
The sports bag found on rocks in good enough condition has lead the search to 200 miles away, perhaps the flotsam and jetsam moved with fast tides.
Meanwhile, as the show must go on, you can see the spring Missoni show that took place for Fashion Week in Milan recently on YouTube. However, you will be very lucky to find any speculation in the press on what the Missoni family's plan is if, indeed Vittorio is dead. I can understand, given the problems with the plane crash theory, the family is hesitating to be conclusive!
Meanwhile it is clear to me that in order to be FAST about POSTING AN ARTICLE / DEADLINE PRESSURE, accuracy is no longer a consideration!
C Christine Trzyna 2013 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.
2/3/13
AIR GUITAR NATION WAS HILARIOUS and INTRIGUING : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
Intriguing!
I admit that I have not only been "movie deprived" over the last few years - though I AM CATCHING UP! - but I also was somehow one of the last to understand that there are AIR GUITAR competitions that culminate in an International Competition in Finland, that it is thought of as performance art by the practitioners, and some think, athletics, and that the competition is funny, friendly, and fierce!
I loved this film/ DVD! I was laughing out loud and stopped crocheting to watch with all my attention focused.
This documentary film focuses on the 2003 competition which featured David "C- Diddy" Jung and Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane, but you see clips of a lot of other top performers, and well, I decided that IF YOU CAN SEE THE (INVISIBLE) GUITAR then you are watching a master, and I was.
There was also this: It brought back the GUITAR GOD era, HEAVY METAL and other opportunities for a GUITAR GOD to show off his or her licks, stage antics, and costuming. Bringing all of that together, along with mugging, attitude, and knowledge of actual guitar playing is an art, and these are artists!
I admit that I have not only been "movie deprived" over the last few years - though I AM CATCHING UP! - but I also was somehow one of the last to understand that there are AIR GUITAR competitions that culminate in an International Competition in Finland, that it is thought of as performance art by the practitioners, and some think, athletics, and that the competition is funny, friendly, and fierce!
I loved this film/ DVD! I was laughing out loud and stopped crocheting to watch with all my attention focused.
This documentary film focuses on the 2003 competition which featured David "C- Diddy" Jung and Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane, but you see clips of a lot of other top performers, and well, I decided that IF YOU CAN SEE THE (INVISIBLE) GUITAR then you are watching a master, and I was.
There was also this: It brought back the GUITAR GOD era, HEAVY METAL and other opportunities for a GUITAR GOD to show off his or her licks, stage antics, and costuming. Bringing all of that together, along with mugging, attitude, and knowledge of actual guitar playing is an art, and these are artists!
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
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