My 10 Days in Nice CA, reading significant literature, has left me quite uneasy. The post-modern universe gives little comfort. I was first inspired by "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyer, but then the postmodern authors offer no heroes, only the ignorant stumbling in the social wildernesses. Conscious revolutionaries declare, and Bob Dylan mocks, "It's All Good". My zen and hermetic mind can see how unknowable the universe is, and while our plans are swept away, every moment, every atom, every thought matters, simply for being. In "Ecology of Fear" Mike Davis documents the assault upon the native LA, and the terror of LA today, both real and imagined. Armageddon is our most important product. "Upside Down" by Eduardo Galeano is a prolonged rant on the crimes and absurdities visited upon the Earth and it's peoples by the military, police, and militia.
"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied" - Mark Twain.
The clouds parted for us as we returned to LA, except for the grapevine which was thick with fog and great slimy tentacled eyeballs.
I'll walk you backwards
A 8 hour drive from Nice CA to Venice CA
Saying Good Bye to Mom, waking Cat, eggs toast coffee, packing the car, taking pictures.
7am Breakfast of Raisin Bran and milk and coffee
Dream of Alien Armies
CSI_CriminalMinds_etc_marathon - be afraid of the criminals and the police, be very afraid.
Kennedy Center Awards. Ron Kovick salutes Bruce Springstein from the Kennedy Center Stage.
+Wheel Of Fortune + Jeopardy - America's real drugs.
Soda and Ice, a splash of the booze of your choice,
kick back in your lazy boy and root for some schmuck to make a million bucks.
Until you pass out.
San Francisco TV NEWS and Disinformation.
Homeland Security and TSA cannot catch Underwear Terrorists?
The Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West.
- The characters are not heroes, they are studio workers, Hollywood wannabees, refugees.
- An old Vaudeville guy dies, a horrific chicken fight, the narrator fantasizes the brutal rape of a sweet but slutty 17 year old would be starlet.
- The foreward to this edition contrasted it to Social Realist trends (1939) and compared favorably with Joyce, Faulkner, Burroughs.
- it only shows oppression, and neither consciousness nor struggle, offers no hope.
- I lived in this neighborhood as a child of the 1950's.
Upside Down - Eduardo Galeano
- A relentless rant about all the horrors of colonialism, neocolonialism, School of the Americas style slaughter of popular movements, corruption, military, police, private security, militias, impunity of Dictators installed by the US. It will provide you with outrage-motivation for your anti-imperialist work.
You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
- Pain sends these young defective Milwaukee men off to give away $32,000. Their mis/adventures, as they capriciously choose African and European destinations to find people worthy of their largess, ring pretty true to what would happen to such characters in such a conceit, they are often hustled by taxi drivers directly to the dance clubs/brothels. Working girls can use the cash too. Time and pain are passed and life goes on, but not for everybody.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
- I enjoyed her writing, especially her wonderful sarcasm. However in the end it is a tale of the foibles of the middle and upper class of her day. It is a modernist fantasy.
