Jeff is here
2005-05-06— Posted by: allegra
I coulda watched something art-ay about Mongolian camels last night but NO Jeff said here, try Bubba Ho-tep. The plot, if one can so dignify it, is that a guy who thinks he’s Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and a guy who thinks he’s JFK (played by Ossie Davis) team up to destroy a mummy who’s sucking people’s souls through their hind ends. A penile growth, a ‘very large cock-a-roach’, and some truly hysterical dialogue feature prominently. There’s nothing in it scarier than the average Buffy episode and it’s really well acted, all things considered. Part of the charm of the movie is that the guy who thinks he’s Elvis actually IS Elvis, or so we are led to believe. The filmmakers even try to explain how a mummy ended up in West Texas in an old folks’ home. I won’t give away the ending.
Danny Schechter, News Dissector
2005-05-06— Posted by: allegra
http://www.newsdissector.org/blog/
I frankly love this blog. I read it every day. I don’t always agree with what he says, but I don’t always agree with anybody, including myself, so that’s okay.
I love his blog for the following reasons:
1. He allows his critics air time, and he doesn’t truncate their comments or take them out of context.
2. He’s a human being, with a network of family, friends, and children, and that network is crucial to both his work and his worldview.
3. Despite everything, he doesn’t give up. Leading by example is hard, but he’s doing it.
4. Despite everything, he doesn’t lose either his sense of humor or his sense of outrage.
5. This is going to sound sort of fannish, but he was in the crowd, in Washington, watching Martin Luther King deliver the I have a Dream speech. He’s like a living breathing textbook not only about American civil rights (he was 17 or thereabouts when he became a civil rights activist) but of the reportage during Vietnam, Watergate, and every scandal and triumph since. He reported on the election in South Africa and still has very close ties there. For me, he represents everything solid, decent, progressive and thoughtful about America. And sometimes he says or reprints things that are so tragic, and so funny, on the same page, that you’re left gasping at the sheer effrontery of his emotional and logical reach.
Oh, and he’s finally writing about Peak Oil. I wondered when he’d get around to that.
Tex Avery
2005-05-06— Posted by: allegra
I am a big Tex Avery fan. Here’s one of his heroines.
