9/17/13
THEY DIDN'T PAY ME TO SAY THIS EITHER! WONKA SWEETTART GUMMIES
Do you ever get the desire to have the flavor of something in your mouth that is totally ARTIFICIAL, like maybe when you've been "good" all week and had Organic? Well, then demand that your closest store carry WONKA candy brand, Sweettarts Gummies, which are of a wonderful gummy-sugary texture and SATURATED with flavor. Yes, the first ingredient is CORN SYRUP. And it might even be the evil GMO CORN SYRUP. However, these must be experienced!
9/11/13
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ANNA WINTOUR AND THE MAKING OF VOGUE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
This film was fascinating and fun.
OK, so we all know the film "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" was supposed to be about Anna Wintour (the DEVIL) famous, powerful fashion editor of Vogue and about the same subject, the production of the most influential fashion magazine in the world.
Is Anna really a bitch or does she maybe have to be?
Does anyone have to be a bitch?
Woa! Don't want to get too philosophical in this moment! Check in with the feminist impulse to never ever call any woman a bitch!
As I watched this video I thought about how busy Wintour is and how so many people - fashion designers - are pressing upon her trying to gain her approval so that their product can be featured in the magazine. I would probably resist. Wear sun glasses. Be careful to remain professional.
The clips of famous fashion designers and fashion shows is exciting - their workrooms - the runway-OK, so we all know the film "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" was supposed to be about Anna Wintour (the DEVIL) famous, powerful fashion editor of Vogue and about the same subject, the production of the most influential fashion magazine in the world.
Is Anna really a bitch or does she maybe have to be?
Does anyone have to be a bitch?
Woa! Don't want to get too philosophical in this moment! Check in with the feminist impulse to never ever call any woman a bitch!
As I watched this video I thought about how busy Wintour is and how so many people - fashion designers - are pressing upon her trying to gain her approval so that their product can be featured in the magazine. I would probably resist. Wear sun glasses. Be careful to remain professional.
All of it is ART!
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
9/5/13
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA AUTHOR SCOTT THORSON WRITING HIS NEXT BOOK : I CAN'T WAIT!
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA AUTHOR SCOTT THORSON
HAS ANOTHER BOOK IN HIM: I CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT !
HAS ANOTHER BOOK IN HIM: I CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT !
By Christine Trzyna
Settle down into your too soft sofa because this too is a tale.
You might even want to make some microwave popcorn before you begin to read.
You might even want to make some microwave popcorn before you begin to read.
Years ago I had a Movie Buddy, A Platonic Male Hetero Friend. We saw some of the movies ("film") together that remain favorites of mine to this day. We used to read an institution in LA called The LA Weekly on say, Wednesday when it came out, to figure out what we might see on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night.
There was this one film critic at the LA Weekly who hated just about every movie we loved. We started reading his column to see what he HATED!
Then we'd go see that movie.
We could afford to go.
We could afford the tickets, the gas, the parking, and afterwards, some pie and ice cream with coffee or tea, and tips to the waitress, at a diner. All of which now would be a luxury and why so many people stay home and watch DVD's.
I do so miss the BIG SCREEN. To me the Big Screen is a Big Part of the Movie Experience.
Years went by and my friend started having to always have his way, the final say, when it came to what movie to see. His tastes had changed. He liked more violence and kink than I could stand. He was always arriving last minute and running late and driving like a hellion over the canyons and scaring the hell out of me that we'd be killed on a curve on Laurel Canyon. (As much as I would want to be reincarnated to live in a house on a curve of a road in Laurel Canyon, it would be better to have a PAST LIFE rather than a FUTURE LIFE there! I let him drive my car on the freeway once and broke out in a cold sweat, clawing the seat as we almost shaved the side of another car. ) This was the beginning of the end of our Movie Buddyship and then our friendship.
... So now you've eaten half that popcorn and you're saying "Wait a minute! What does this have to do with "Behind the Candelabra?" and Scott Thorson? ...
I'll tell you.
I thought the movie was fantastic, me with the mom who used to say of Liberace "He's not gay he just loves his mother!" and have seen it TWICE. (Maybe I should have a film rating system that gives five stars to only the few films I've seen twice or want to see again?) It seems that movie has the magic something and that I wasn't the only one who loved it.
As I watched this film I was thinking back to being in the theater with my long ago Movie Buddy, Platonic Male Hetero Friend, and such Romantically Sweet films such as "Crossing Delancy Street." We all wanted the Amy Irving character to forget the Literary Bore and get out of her Snobby and Low Paying Independent Book Store job and marry the Pickle Man!
My friend was so involved in that film - that near-end part where the Pickle Man has been stood up waiting for this woman at her Bubbie's apartment. She's gone to read the unpublished pages of the Literary Bore and escaped his seduction. She's realized how stupid she's been and races to meet the good man who really wants her, but thinks she got there too late. From where he stands he sees her shed a tear and only then he renters the room.
My friend's words out loud -"Kiss her! Kiss her!" - filled the quiet theater.
What would my friend, who has since imported a bride from a Communist Country and married, and who is no longer my friend, think of "Behind the Candelabra?"
Did anyone yell "Kiss him! Kiss Him!" at the screen?
"Behind the Candelabra" takes place in the past but as a genre in film I'd say it is where Romance is at presently in film, for gone are the days of Sweet Romance.
And...
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT "BEHIND THE CANDELABRA" FILM WAS MADE FOR THE BIG SCREEN! Liberace and his sets and Vegas were larger than life. (We the lurid want to see Matt Damon's hot body on the big screen too! We the lurid have loved Matt since he played that quite possibly gay character, Ripley, by intentionally confusing author Patricia Highsmith, in "The Talented Mr. Ripley." )
I read Scott Thorson's memoir, "Behind the Candelabra" when it came out years ago and read it again last spring when I heard the film was in production. I wanted to know more about one of my mom's favorites! I can't wait to read Scott's second book. (He worked on the first one with another writer, Alex Thorleifson, incorrectly called a "ghost writer" since he is credited.) This second book is also already written and will contain his relationship with Michael Jackson and other secrets.
I ALSO WANT TO READ SCOTT'S THIRD BOOK, the one he has yet to write.
This third book is going to be the Biggest Challenge of His Life, and Scott's life has been and is challenged. First, while the movie and its stars gained traction, he had no home to go home to but the Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel where the owner, Dennis Hoff and some of the sex workers paid to bail him out of jail and for a good attorney. Then Scott was removed to a Reno location where he's having trouble staying with the program.* As is he's in treatment for colon cancer. Between the terms of his probation and the cancer, he is unable to attend to promoting "Behind the Candelabra" book or the movie, which appears to up for awards.
Scott needs a Big Challenge of the Positive Kind. I believe writing can heal a writer, or at least move one towards understanding what has happened in life so you can go from there.
Scott, if you're reading this, YOU HAVE A THIRD BOOK.
While I had a Movie Buddy, a Platonic Male Hetero Friend, I worked in a business where I had lots of contact with gay men and even some Platonic Male Homo Friends. None as flamboyant as Liberace, but it seems to me that the much older man with the much younger man was sort of the reality in that crowd. (I even remember some of them saying that underage boys "knew" what they were "doing" when they got involved with older men, which today we are sensitized to understand as child molestation.) The movie and what Scott lived reminded me of those days and that scene, that time and place in the gay world that needs to be written about.
While watching "Behind the Candelabra" I was remembering an era, a time and place that is gone - for good. That time is the time before AIDS! Oh sure, there are writers who have lived it and written it, and many of them are dead. Most of them have not enjoyed a mostly heterosexual readership or viewership.
*update September 9th. Scott has been rearrested for testing positive for illegal drug use and is back in the pokey. His attorney says he thinks some of the medications he's taking for cancer may have triggered a false positive...
C Christine Trzyna 2013 All Rights Reserved.
9/3/13
8/16/13
I'M BACKFLOATING IN 12 FEET OF WATER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS...
Enjoy reading some of my past posts! I've enjoyed writing them! Christine
8/13/13
DAN BROWN'S INFERNO ; THE GOOD AND BAD OF A BEST SELLER
DAN BROWN'S INFERNO ; THE GOOD AND BAD OF A BEST SELLER
BOOK REVIEW by CHRISTINE TRZYNA
Since it's already on the best seller list and been reviewed countless times why am I bothering to add my voice? OK, like Steven King has become, Brown is the multi-genre genius. A spy thriller, a fast chase movie, futuristic novel, a love story kinda, set in foreign travel, art history, cutting edge biology and medicine, a who-done-it mystery, and did I mention literary?
Here's an example of the time old trick of letting literature refer to literature that is considered literary to make your book more literary.
Page 82 - Professor Langdon speaking
"As you are no doubt aware, Dante* is best known for his monumental literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy - a brutally vivid account of the author's descent into hell, passage through purgatory, and eventually ascent into paradise to commune with God. By modern standards, The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It;'s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population."
"As you are no doubt aware, Dante* is best known for his monumental literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy - a brutally vivid account of the author's descent into hell, passage through purgatory, and eventually ascent into paradise to commune with God. By modern standards, The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It;'s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population."
And so we readers are in the classroom being lectured.
Or this, on age 215, Professor Langdon speaking again.
"In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful that he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world. Dante clearly agreed, denouncing pride as the worst of the seven deadly sins... and punished the prideful in the deepest ring of the inferno."
This book is populated by characters, male and female, who are geniuses and have much to teach, and maybe that's what was bothering me. All that genius, and the only dummy in the story is the reader. All that lecturing, even during breaks in the chase, which, by the way tired me out. I couldn't believe that the aging Langdon, a bookish fellow, could even run so fast or so long. Even James Bond hopped into fast cars to get places pronto. The endless detailed descriptions of architecture and landscape also had the effect of stalling the action. Looking at the book as one in a series about Langdon, I'm frustrated because he keeps repressing his interest in females. No, I don't want Brown to add erotica to his novels as yet another genre, but if Langdon had a real romance once in a few books maybe he'd have more dimension to his character.
There's just no place for an everyman in his work. No place with all the intellectualism for a deep feeling. Inferno is a story to be witnessed but not participated in. It's too high, too mighty, to allow the reader of a mystery one pleasure, the chance to figure a few things out before the characters do!
*(Ct notes Dante Alighieri)
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
"In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful that he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world. Dante clearly agreed, denouncing pride as the worst of the seven deadly sins... and punished the prideful in the deepest ring of the inferno."
This book is populated by characters, male and female, who are geniuses and have much to teach, and maybe that's what was bothering me. All that genius, and the only dummy in the story is the reader. All that lecturing, even during breaks in the chase, which, by the way tired me out. I couldn't believe that the aging Langdon, a bookish fellow, could even run so fast or so long. Even James Bond hopped into fast cars to get places pronto. The endless detailed descriptions of architecture and landscape also had the effect of stalling the action. Looking at the book as one in a series about Langdon, I'm frustrated because he keeps repressing his interest in females. No, I don't want Brown to add erotica to his novels as yet another genre, but if Langdon had a real romance once in a few books maybe he'd have more dimension to his character.
There's just no place for an everyman in his work. No place with all the intellectualism for a deep feeling. Inferno is a story to be witnessed but not participated in. It's too high, too mighty, to allow the reader of a mystery one pleasure, the chance to figure a few things out before the characters do!
*(Ct notes Dante Alighieri)
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
7/16/13
THE DISEASE OF THE MONTH CLUB AS AN ONLINE PROFILE?! USE "DUCK DUCK GO" TO RESEARCH WHAT AILS YOU : CHRISTINE TRZYNA HUMOR
DISEASE OF THE MONTH CLUB AS AN ONLINE PROFILE?
USE "DUCK DUCK GO" TO RESEARCH!
(A Humor Piece)
by Christine Trzyna
My friend "P" called me in a panic recently because she discovered that her Google Searches comprise an on-line profile of her interests, obsessions, fears, hopes, and joys, and even that she's been looking up people she used to know, like passive-agressive Bartley, the guy who married someone else.
She didn't know that long-ago-boyfriend's computer in another state possibly might be telling him that she's "hitting" on him still after all these years!
She just wanted to see what the woman he did marry looks like, found the bitch, who she said had legs strong enough to wrestle an alligator and a huge proud beer belly, and who had the nerve to brag that she made more money thatn him, and after some severe snickering, was satisfied.
"P" was looking people up not because she wants to contact them but just because she wanted to know certain people who had really bugged her in high school were still alive. Now she is forever electronically linked to them, should the NSA target her.
There's some application you can use to find out what the Advertisers, just because they want to target you, know and the Authorities, just because you've been accused of a crime, can find out about you.
Will the time you found yourself reading erotica on line go against you?
"P" e-mailed about finding Bartley and her Yahoo account threw up ad after ad for diamond engagement rings. Shit! It wasn't just reading her e-mails, or searches, it was looking into her soul, taunting her early romantic failure. It was almost telepathic!
I tried to reason with her. The chances of "P" ever being looked into for any nefarious reason are just too slim. She's hardworking, law abiding, and decent. The worse that you could say about her is that she let Bartley go to the bitch without a fight and that she was underemployed long enough to have defaulted on her student loan.
If anything I wish she would file a complaint with the FBI over the local guy, Felix, who has been stalking her for a couple years and who has tried to get at her using various e-mail addresses and inappropriate e-mails to friends of hers, and other on-line hooliganisms. He even created a Flickr account with her name on it and a YouTube station ditto, so desperate is he to see the inside of a prison cell. The guy frequently calls her or has other people call her just to see if he can rouse her; she moved and her phone number remains unchanged. She saves the text messages he sends without reading them or replying. She's tried not to react or give him hope. She's told him to stop more than once, even had her boyfriend call him, but he keeps popping on up, using any excuse. Sometimes he is in the same store or the same street as she is and she leaves fast.
Felix is mentally unwell. He's a pain in the ass.
"Let the FBI chase the guy down and rearrange his fantasy life!" that's what I said.
But "P"s panic and then anger at being spied upon did get to me last night. I began to think of what my user profile might look like, especially as I have so very many interests, I read all around subjects, and because I don't just research for myself. I also research for other people, for free, because I care about them or because they ask me, especially seniors.
Yes, there are still people out there who think anything that has to do with typing is secretarial work, or they simply don't like machines, or their arthritis is too painful for them to type, or they just want to let me make their lives simple and I'm willing.
I like to research. I've gotten good at it.
I look up other people's diseases, their diagnosis, their medicines, their health benefits, their doctors, changes in medical care, and who to call if their care-giver is abusive or if they want their ex off their sofa, or what assisted living buildings are in their area.
If a computer assumes that because I have searched for or read about blood diseases, genetic links to tumors, strokes, heart conditions, high cholesterol, extreme diets, hot flashes, fatty liver, breast reduction, sore big toes, herbal supplements, medical grass clinics, extreme physical therapy, early onset memory loss, food banks, latent lesbianism, companion animals, senior safe sex, senior tennis teams at the park and senior swim hours at the wading pool, it's all about me, what can I do about it now?
Besides crawl off and die in a corner somewhere?
Here's a clue. I can use Duck Duck Go as my search engine. Yes, long a Google Girl, I'm giving this strangely named search engine a try.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
7/6/13
JOURNALISTS AGAINST JOURNALISTS?
video expired. Taken down December 2024
Have been reading around Edward Snowden since the first reportage in newspapers, on the Internet, and in YouTube videos, I chose this video which expresses some of the concerns I have about the effect of both the NSA / U.S. Government monitoring electronic communications of everyone who uses cell phones and/or computers as well as the legal issues involved from all angles.
Having studied Journalism in college at a time when anyone with any ambition wanted to be the one who got the most important news out to the public, at a time when hard news, not soft, was important, it concerns me that a journalist who wrote about Snowden and the information he wanted to leak would be considered criminal for doing so. Let us not confuse Journalist who are doing their jobs and the people and events they cover. A news EZditor also has a great role in determining what will be printed and thus influence history by choosing what to print or not, but a good editor is on the side of the Journalist. A Journalist relies upon and reports to the Editor.
Was it Edward Snowdens intent to shut down Journalism, Newspapers, and the Media?
Just the opposite.
Have been reading around Edward Snowden since the first reportage in newspapers, on the Internet, and in YouTube videos, I chose this video which expresses some of the concerns I have about the effect of both the NSA / U.S. Government monitoring electronic communications of everyone who uses cell phones and/or computers as well as the legal issues involved from all angles.
Having studied Journalism in college at a time when anyone with any ambition wanted to be the one who got the most important news out to the public, at a time when hard news, not soft, was important, it concerns me that a journalist who wrote about Snowden and the information he wanted to leak would be considered criminal for doing so. Let us not confuse Journalist who are doing their jobs and the people and events they cover. A news EZditor also has a great role in determining what will be printed and thus influence history by choosing what to print or not, but a good editor is on the side of the Journalist. A Journalist relies upon and reports to the Editor.
Was it Edward Snowdens intent to shut down Journalism, Newspapers, and the Media?
Just the opposite.
7/3/13
6/25/13
HAS THE PRIVACY INVASION SCANDAL MADE YOU PARANOID ABOUT BLOGGING?
HAS THE PRIVACY INVASION SCANDAL MADE YOU PARANOID ABOUT BLOGGING?
6/23/13
EXCERPT: WOULD IT KILL YOU TO STOP DOING THAT? A MODERN GUIDE TO MANNERS : HENRY ALFORD
WOULD IT KILL YOU TO STOP DOING THAT? A MODERN GUIDE TO MANNERS : HENRY ALFORD
Book is C 2012 Henry Alford
Book is C 2012 Henry Alford
Twelve is Publisher
Page 100
"The true devil's candy of business e-mail, of course, is forwarding. If the essential piece of information to be gleaned here is "Never send any message to a business e-mail address that you'd be embarrassed to have the whole company read," a helpful addendum would be ... "Or anyone else, for that matter." In 2001, the CEO of a Kansas City- based health care information tenchology firm called Cerner Corporation sent an angry w-mail to his managers about his employees' work habits...The message was forwarded all the way to Yahoo's message board, where Wall Street saw it and assumed that Cerner was in trouble. In the blink of an eye, the company's stock had dropped 29 percent. Over the course of three days, the stock price fell from about forty-four dollars a share to thirty-four."
6/17/13
"ART 4 U" INTIMATE PERFORMANCE ADVENTURES IN DRESSING ROOMS JUST AMAZING! PAT PAYNE
ART 4 U NEW TOWN ARTS ORG link!
This past Saturday, while in the North Hollywood Arts District, Gracie and I saw a big dressing room van parked outside the Avery Shrieber theater. Turned out the dressing rooms were containing three actresses, each who were doing very intimate theatre. Gracie and I mounted the steps into the dressing room of actress PAT PAYNE. Her presentation was called MY OWN PERSONAL WEATHER SYSTEM.
I've never experienced anything like it, it was very out of the box creative, art, performance art, and theater all at the same time, and I want you to know that there will be more performances in Sherman Oaks this coming Saturday June 23, 2013 at 14209 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks CA 91403 next to Guitar Center. (I believe that if you have the time you can see all three performances. These will be by men.)
PAY PAYNE had her dressing room hot and wore a bright pink see through plastic dress - she's in a unitard underneath. She wanted you to feel hot too because her act was a bit of performance art as well as artistic installation about menopause. She created a wall of prescription bottles hanging on clear thread like a room divider, had a table of speculums representing all the gynecological exams she had in her life, and had on display a contruction of her pre-menopause perky breasts in their own theater. Using one of the clear plastic speculums in hand she went to an installation of her eggs, of which one was viable.
Since feedback was more than welcome, we had a woman to woman talk, which I included Gracie, my dog, in. Gracie sat on my lap smiling the whole time. You see she is spayed so in dog menopause. I was telling Pat how people have talked to me about adopting a dog, especially if they have figured it out that I'm childless by choice myself.
People have said things to me like,"Why don't you adopt a child?" They assume that because Gracie is cute small and fluffy that she is not just well cared for but SPOILED. (So what if Gracie thinks my name is Mummie?)
The best thing is that I left feeling I had made a (rare) connection with another human being!
So check out the web site for NEW TOWN ARTS ORG and head over to Sherman Oaks next Saturnday!
This past Saturday, while in the North Hollywood Arts District, Gracie and I saw a big dressing room van parked outside the Avery Shrieber theater. Turned out the dressing rooms were containing three actresses, each who were doing very intimate theatre. Gracie and I mounted the steps into the dressing room of actress PAT PAYNE. Her presentation was called MY OWN PERSONAL WEATHER SYSTEM.
I've never experienced anything like it, it was very out of the box creative, art, performance art, and theater all at the same time, and I want you to know that there will be more performances in Sherman Oaks this coming Saturday June 23, 2013 at 14209 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks CA 91403 next to Guitar Center. (I believe that if you have the time you can see all three performances. These will be by men.)
PAY PAYNE had her dressing room hot and wore a bright pink see through plastic dress - she's in a unitard underneath. She wanted you to feel hot too because her act was a bit of performance art as well as artistic installation about menopause. She created a wall of prescription bottles hanging on clear thread like a room divider, had a table of speculums representing all the gynecological exams she had in her life, and had on display a contruction of her pre-menopause perky breasts in their own theater. Using one of the clear plastic speculums in hand she went to an installation of her eggs, of which one was viable.
Since feedback was more than welcome, we had a woman to woman talk, which I included Gracie, my dog, in. Gracie sat on my lap smiling the whole time. You see she is spayed so in dog menopause. I was telling Pat how people have talked to me about adopting a dog, especially if they have figured it out that I'm childless by choice myself.
People have said things to me like,"Why don't you adopt a child?" They assume that because Gracie is cute small and fluffy that she is not just well cared for but SPOILED. (So what if Gracie thinks my name is Mummie?)
The best thing is that I left feeling I had made a (rare) connection with another human being!
So check out the web site for NEW TOWN ARTS ORG and head over to Sherman Oaks next Saturnday!
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