The California Libre Screed

Fwd: Your care and concern

2012-01-16T02:30:00.000-08:00

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To the Warner Brothers from the Marx Brothers

2011-09-13T16:53:00.000-07:00

As reposted from: http://www.chillingeffects.org/resource.cgi?ResourceID=31 Groucho Marx Abstract: While preparing to film a movie entitled A Night in Casablanca, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own Casablanca, released almost five years earlier in

Time

2011-05-19T00:44:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, For some of you, this may be a surprise as I have sent out a SCREED in almost a year...for many others, a surprise as I haven't sent out an e-mail blast in much longer (since my previous computer died...) Now I've painstakingly reassembled a lifetime of e-mail addresses...so if you get multiple copies of this message, blame yourself! Settle down! I wanted to share a movie

Boom Krasch Bang

2010-06-30T23:11:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, It's that time of year again, when we're certain it's summer, the neighbors nearly blew up my car, all in the name of good, clean fun. No trip to the Colony this year; those rich folks are way, way over me. But I know better people in Malibu anyway...perhaps I'll be with them. I must be upfront: it's time for me to find a chair and get hammered in it. My boss decided to

Enjoy It While It Lasts

2010-06-19T03:57:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, If you're in Los Angeles this next week, it's the Solstice...and our annual film festival. If you have a free evening, I can recommend these... Tonight (19 June) they're showing "Desperately Seeking Susan" for free at 8 PM on a big screen at 7th & Figueroa. That might be fun...it's a wonderfully dated '80s movie, and it's always nice to have a little wine and cheese and

Call Me Ish Kabibble

2010-06-08T02:56:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, I've discovered a new diversion for myself when I have some time on my hands; there's a setting on my GPS that changes how it calculates routes. The default is "economical", but living in Los Angeles, I have it set to "fast", which will ordinarily take me out of my way to find the freeway and get on it. But there's yet another option, "short", which takes the most direct

Time Waits for Newman

2010-02-12T01:28:00.001-08:00

Greetings, friends, If you happen to be in LA this Saturday, it'll be something rather unpredicted, a housewarming, hosted by yours truly. Who would've thunk it? Don't expect much...I've only just finished ripping up the carpet (and laying it over my lawn to kill it.) Let's start in the early afternoon (so some of you can bring your kids or get to your meditation seminars) and continue until

A Change of Scenery...or an Ecological Renovation?

2009-09-20T02:53:00.000-07:00

Greetings, dear friends, Once again I write to you from that state of confusion, that unnerving feeling when one takes stability, a life humming along, and intentionally disrupts it. I parallel-parked a mid-size U-Haul tonight...that only took me about 5 five back-and-forths and getting out twice to see how far I was from the car behind me. To my credit, I had one Steinlager and it was on a

Save Film at LACMA

2009-08-11T16:05:00.001-07:00

It's amazing that a city like LA, which bemoans the loss of the film industry, does so little to prevent the loss of film screenings.

Michael Jackson Moonwalked for Your Sins

2009-07-24T07:28:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, Those of you from Los Angeles will understand that, even though I've been in my apartment for 15 years, I don't know all of my neighbors. Today I'm referring to the couple just north of my building. I've watched as they made significant improvements to their house, aged and retired, and their kids (two boys?) grew up and moved away. But other than putting some misdelivered

The Sun Stands Still and Waits

2009-06-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, After a mild spring, summer is slowly warming up my City of the Angels. The furnace has been off for weeks, and the fan is out. I can sleep on top of the sheets, and sometimes leave the door open all night. I love it. I have another favor to ask of this motley collected group...anyone know of a large studio or house where I can show four movies over several nights or

Extinction Is Our Business

2009-05-05T01:08:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, I felt like sending out a leaner, meaner screed to those who believe in CALIFORNIA LIBRE...if only because the sun is out again, the nights are sultry and the jacarandas are in full bloom. I also have an important scientific theory to correct. First, though, some brief announcements. First of all, to her embarrassment (though crowing "take that, bitches" up on Facebook makes

The Screed That Almost Wasn't

2009-04-30T00:17:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, The winter of 2008-2009 just evaporated from a blur into nothing, into that flash in the rear-view that you thought was a cop, but was just some eroded fragment of glass on the shoulder. The last screed I spattered in your general direction was just after the Winter Solstice...and here we are, well after the Vernal Equinoxe and the first LA heatwave of the year. Yikes. I'd

Rerun: Your Movie Guide for Easter 2007

2009-04-11T07:46:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, I'm off on a two-day hike to the Bridge to Nowhere, but I wouldn't want to leave you high 'n dry for the Great Resurrection Holiday. A new screed is coming soon! In the meantime, some movies that might tide you over and bring you favor in the eyes of THE LORD. And some of these movies are now available online in their entirety! Enjoy! Whether you are Christian, Jew,

Your Saviour Is an Axial Tilt

2008-12-24T15:14:00.000-08:00

Greetings, friends, Alas, no holiday card again this year. Not that it hasn't been a year of changes...huge changes. I was suddenly laid off in February by my employer of 11 years, the City of Los Angeles, but after some months of flailing I found a new place with the City of Inglewood. Though a smaller city, I have more responsibility (I am in charge of serials and government documents) and

The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Screed

2008-11-13T02:18:00.000-08:00

Greetings, friends, Was it only ninety years ago that our great-grandfathers were dying in the trenches? Everybody's talking about how far America has come (and how far it hasn't.) Let's pause to accept a timid pat on the back on behalf of the whole world. We are way too sophisticated to repeat the awesome carnage of World War I. Now we are all about disease, poverty, drought, and if it comes

America Says BOO

2008-11-04T09:50:00.000-08:00

Greetings, friends, It was a quiet Halloween, maybe because the real terror is about to begin. It's the night of 3 November, hunkered in my apartment, feeling that calm before the storm. Outside the window, I can hear the crowd a block away in front of the local gay bar, Woody's...ahem, MJ's...where they're waving their "No on 8" signs, cars honk and they cheer back. Beneath it all is the

To Hell with the Weekly...Here's My Voter Recommendations!

2008-10-29T18:35:00.000-07:00

This article is very direct:Obama: l'Espoir d'un Retour à l'Amérique Tocquevilliennehttp://www.letemps.ch/template/opinions.asp?page=6&article=242668Translation:Obama: The Hope of a Return to Tocquevillian Americahttp://www.truthout.org/102908EAfter the choice of Sarah Palin, John McCain has made it clear...this is a cultural war. Time to vote in the most important election in a generation. If

Don't Get Complacent!

2008-10-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

TOP 5 REASONS OBAMA SUPPORTERS SHOULDN'T REST EASY1. The polls may be wrong. This is an unprecedented election. No one knows how racism may affect what voters tell pollsters—or what they do in the voting booth. And the polls are narrowing anyway. In the last few days, John McCain has gained ground in most national polls, as his campaign has gone even more negative.2. Dirty tricks. Republicans are

The Last Equinoxe Screed You Will Ever Need

2008-09-21T16:55:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, September is always a favorite time of year, and not just because I'm beginning year 44 on Earth (and remember, a birthday is not an anticipation, but a victory over the past.) The weather always crackles here in LA in September...summer literally broke in one night a few weeks ago, when ocean fog covered the city, and ever since the days have been warm and dry, but the

Happy Peg Entwistle Day!

2008-09-16T12:25:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, Today is 16 September, the 76th anniversary of Peg Entwistle's leap from the HOLLYWOOD sign. RIP Millicent Lillian Entwistle 5 February 1908 - 16 September 1932 May Hollywood (and Washington DC) go up in flames!

Let the Games Begin...and Then the Holy War

2008-09-09T04:56:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, First of all, no Peg Entwistle party again this year, but if anyone is interested, we can see David Byrne do Brian Eno on 3 October at the Greek, and then go get drunk somewhere. It will be cheaper for me and fun for all. I've really been using my free time to good advantage, now that I finally have access to a good video collection at the Burbank Public Library, to catch up

Yet Another Reason Why I Hate Hillary Clinton

2008-08-28T21:32:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends,A friend of mine with a warped sense of humor turned me onto these blogs; these are the idiots who would rather put John McCain in the White House and destroy the world rather than say goodnight to their heroine, Hillary Clinton:The ConfluenceParty Unity My AssPeople United Means ActionI posted this response to one of them:Fascinating! I'm not an Obama supporter, and certainly

Freedom of Choice Is What You Got, Freedom from Choice Is What You Want

2008-07-31T03:15:00.001-07:00

Greetings, friends, Just in case you forgot, I want to remind you what this country is all about: In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America WHEN IN the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and

Why the Goddess Is Going to Burn Your Screed to Bits

2008-06-21T02:43:00.000-07:00

Greetings, friends, The morning sun is about to align with all those rocks and spirals and doorways our ancestors left to remind us that the longest day of the year is here. Not atypically for 21st century Los Angeles, we're having a heat wave, though not one so bad it kept me from my daily journey along the river...until the chain on my bike snapped. Too bad, and a nice walk past the rather