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Strong Kids, Safe Kids (1984)
required viewing for all child care workers, clergy, parents AND KIDS
My only child is now a 20 year old man. I found and promoted THIS VIDEO in his licensed family-home child care (Direno Willis Rising Stars Oakland California) 16 years ago. Sister Willis promoted it to her many parents in West Oakland and at her West Oakland Church. I now promote it again for local parents in Oregon. Short, effective, appropriate. Safety is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing for any child to learn. Boundaries, "private" and giving verbal consent each and every time for each and every touch.
Rev. Abby Jo Ovitsky theparentadvocate.org BeitShalvaHermitage.org Blessings from Aloha, Oregon
The Good Wife: Old Spice (2014)
Reflections on Life Imitating Art 10 Months Later...
At the time of this writing, ten months have passed since this episode was released.
Life imitates art when "economic espionage" is the charge and the accused is a blond woman. In fiction, the buyer was China. In life, the characters are Chinese but the buyer is ISIS aka ISIL...and where does the alphabet soup lead? When the writers go on strike, does the news stop? If they stayed on strike would wars end?
Interesting comment about ransom-ware implies it is Russian entrepreneurs hacking into American lawyers' computers assuming correctly that lawyers cannot bother to back up their own computers, because they have "systems" for that run by "people" who do "that" so they don't have to. The middlemen are retired, disabled, poor, unassuming schlubs who end up laundering money without knowing what they are doing. Who is really motivated to police the internet for entrepreneurial acts such as these? This script implies only those who are harmed are so motivated, and only if they have someone like Kalinda- Matta-Hari-Schwarma to do it...setting the stage for what eventually did happen, FCC regulation of the internet so that all are not equal, but this sort of shady business is more severely punished. "China" hovers as a question mark in the room, a smoky cloud hovering before it joins with the prefab ceiling. False flag ransom-ware, Gulf of Tonkin, timing, China sea and refugees...these things came to pass in the ten months since this fictional story was broadcast.
Good writing, creative arguments and colorful characters make this funny, particularly if you've ever worked in a law office that's not strictly criminal defense, or if you have worked closely with police.
I laugh because I always wonder why lawyers, who swear to tell the truth, who know very well what perjury is, who take an oath to be of service in order to be licensed, what have these officers of the court got to hide that is not backed up in public somewhere? If it is true why not post it on a public computer? If it is not true, why didn't they refuse to be involved? I can understand a few gray areas but not all of it. Many of us did get this ransom-ware and either we had backups or we did not. Most of my backups are on government computers, in courts. I have no secrets. Obviously if we did not as a culture value the idea of secrecy we would not need lawyers. But why does everything stop because they cannot find paper copies or public copies of their work? Because all of it is secret? Most of it? It raises ethical questions not asked here. I indeed did learn to practice law in a day and age before computers. I earned a steady paycheck from backing up the most important documents on paper, which this script, circa 2014 implies is a lost art, sticky notes, colored flags and all. How quickly we forget. There is a reason Sumerians used stone.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
review of beginning-only
It is creative and so far I like it. I wanted to post this where the writer would see it.
There is an historical inconsistency in the beginning. Life Magazine (which I used to enjoy for the photographs) went out of business in 1972. Dumbledore did not first appear in J.K. Rowling's novel until 1997. "Walter" tells a guy in the elevator "beards look good on Dumbledore, not on you" then he walks into the Life Magazine office, which is being bought by a dot.com. But there was no world wide web in 1972, that was before there was any Windows, or personal computers. The reference to being bought by a dot.com in what is suggested to be the early 70s also is a plot failure. There should be some link between late 60s to early 70s attire, graphics and the dot.com boom, which occurred 20 years later, but there isn't. So we are asked to file this inconsistency away and keep watching. The voices he does, the special effects that sprout out of situational remarks is funny, a bit Woody Allen, but original in form.
The reminder that "film" was once sacred to photographers (blood stained and sent with a handwritten note) is good. I'll keep watching and perhaps I can update later.
I did not check the spoiler box because I have not seen the plot yet, we know from the summary that "Walter Mitty" is a day dreamer.
Glee: The Sue Sylvester Shuffle (2011)
Honestly, I was Just Trying to Feel Something...
There are a number of good numbers here; the whole thing adds up to a good Halloween track, particularly the "brains" scene
a bit of Frankenstein Jr. there, nice stop gap photography. Warblers are innovative, melodic and many, yet manage to sing in unison, a lot of rehearsals went into that, it shows.
Jane's aged well from SNL to this series, reminiscent of another Jane, Jane Curtain. I can see why Carol Burnett is a fan, and I was a fan of Burnett first. Sue's the gal ya love to hate, but with original, funny lines. I'd like to see more of Iqbal Theba. All these young people have great voices and moves, particularly Kevin McHale, can we get him out of the chair? Who said show tunes have to be boring? Colfer has an amazing flexibility, Monteith is like a John Wayne meets the Beach Boys, (even in "She's Not There," a new out of body experience).
Couric, not Sawyer, why would Sawyer care about cheer-leading?? "Honestly, I was just trying to feel something." That is what teachers and students say when they get caught, isn't it? Funny how ratings work. Michael Jackson, your music lives on, baby. The show went on.
Leaves of Grass (2009)
Prodigal Brother returns for Bailout
Lines from Walt Whitman are interwoven with other theories of Creation, such as geometry and insects. Poetic lines written by Tim Blake Nelson, who also wrote, directed, played Bolger and produced an understated commentary on what might be updated Whitman.
Ed Norton's characters remind me of Tom Hanks with a splash of Gomer Pyle, or Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, but somehow it works, no character is all good, none all evil, man is complex.
Filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana, you get interesting, ever-changing scenery, never predictable. In addition to Ed Norton, other name brand actors are Dryfuss, Sarandon, DeVito's daughter (who has his eyes) and Ty Burrell.
Not at all like Cheech & Chong!