Horror Movies and Other Things I Don’t Want to Believe are True

Tim Bennett and I have just returned home from two screening tours of What A Way To Go. We toured 13 communities in the Northeast during August and 23 communities in the West and Midwest during October and early November. I’ve now got a finger on the pulse of current levels of awareness in the [...]

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Jarett Sanchez Podcast re: John Taylor Gatto

Just discovered Jarett Sanchez podcast. This one is a reading from John Taylor Gatto. Sally has listened to a couple of others and they were wonderful, thoughtful pieces.  Anymore it is hard for Sally to do “hand work” without listening to a podcast because there’s just so much out there that is incredible.  This particular [...]

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Thelma, Louise, and Six Degrees

When I watch a movie, my thinking always wanders to the same few questions. How is this a story for our time? What does this film tell us about ourselves, our deepest feelings, our secret thoughts, our invisible yearnings? And how conscious are the filmmakers themselves about these processes? Because we seem to be living [...]

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Robert “Rocco” Anderson – Laughing Out Loud

Sunday, December 4, 2011 We lost Rocco yesterday.  Those who knew him well know what a loss that really is.  Those who didn’t will likely never understand who it was they missed. Robert “Rocco” Anderson died sometime Friday night, after another hard seizure, it seems.  I don’t have all the details yet.  Sudden unexpected death [...]

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