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Culture Clash

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. The Firing of Melissa Click. February 26, 2016. This is where the faculty case against firing Melissa Click, otherwise correct in every respect, falls apart: But no one on the campus filed a complaint against the professor, Ms. Henrickson said, a step that would have triggered the university’s own procedures. “No one took the opportunity to avail themselves of that process,” she said, […]. Read the full article →. Thumbs Up for “Three Masters”. June 10, 2014. From t...

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Pussy 69: Booty Call Talk

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Saturday, April 25, 2009. May 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM. I agree hole heartedly. Twitter is adult media, Lets work together to liven the twit. May 30, 2009 at 7:30 PM. I'm about as open as you can get on Twitter - www.twitter.com/swimnaked. And I don't wait until midnight. SEX is good! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Penelope’s Last Day

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. Penelope’s Last Day. By A Jay Adler. July 28, 2015. When this blog was in its heyday, Penelope had a featured role on it. Julia photographed her. I wrote about her. Now that I prepare to modestly revive the blog, I feature Penelope one last time. Two months ago, after seventeen years, we lost Penelope, an eventuality I anticipated back when I was celebrating her. Had become the universal prefix to more adjectives and nouns we ever knew began with P. Next post: Argum...

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Thumbs Up for “Three Masters”

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. Thumbs Up for “Three Masters”. By A Jay Adler. June 10, 2014. Bright Lights Film Journal. My latest film criticism, “ Three Masters: Spielberg, Anderson, Haneke, and Their Audience. 8221; excerpted in the previous post, is recommended reading. For the week at RogerEbert.com. If that doesn’t get you to read, I don’t know what to do with you. (But I’ll think of something.). In its public role to redeem the horror of what [the American soldier] experienced and, perhaps...

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Creative

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. From FOOTNOTE 1 “Minnie. October 1, 2015. The following is the Excerpt from The Twentieth Century Passes, a memoir of my father’s life) By the time I was born, three of my grandparents were already dead. They had died young, in their early 60s, just before and after the birth of my sister ten years before me. My parents had had me, […]. Read the full article →. From FOOTNOTE 1 — “Route 66: The American Road”. September 9, 2015. Read the full article →. The last of m...

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Discrediting Arguments on the Iran Deal

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. Discrediting Arguments on the Iran Deal. By A Jay Adler. August 11, 2015. Sometimes constituencies accept this claim, sometimes they do not. Negotiated agreements are sometimes rejected, both for good and for ill. The proof is in the further pressure applied to the other side, succumbed to in time or not, and what is lost in the process. Is to be found in the intellectual substance of the argument. Currently, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is being subjected to the ...

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Three Film Masters

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. By A Jay Adler. June 4, 2014. Bright Lights Film Journal. My latest film criticism is available now at. Bright Lights Film Journal. 8220; Three Masters: Spielberg, Anderson, Haneke, and Their Audience. 8221; addresses the question, as the tag line has it: “Is the filmmaker tyrant, aesthete, ringmaster, or hermit? I challenge this stance, here particularly with regard to three filmmakers whose consideration of their audience is discoverable in their filmmaking. S...

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The Political Animal

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. The Firing of Melissa Click. February 26, 2016. This is where the faculty case against firing Melissa Click, otherwise correct in every respect, falls apart: But no one on the campus filed a complaint against the professor, Ms. Henrickson said, a step that would have triggered the university’s own procedures. “No one took the opportunity to avail themselves of that process,” she said, […]. Read the full article →. The Causes of ISIS. December 24, 2015. It has been a...

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Iraq and “Last Days in Vietnam”

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. Iraq and “Last Days in Vietnam”. By A Jay Adler. June 19, 2014. Last Days in Vietnam". Los Angeles Film Festival. At the Los Angeles Film Festival I caught Rory Kennedy’s powerful and moving Last Days in Vietnam. Who in 1975 would have been led by McNamara, Rusk, or Westmoreland back into the paddies of Vietnam? These are people who would have reduced the Thirty Years’ War to the bromide of staying the course. He understood that the times, as the leaders, would not ...

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Ave Atque Vale

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The sad red earth. How we lived on it. By A Jay Adler. April 4, 2014. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,. Take at my hands this garland, and farewell. Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,. And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother,. With sadder than the Niobean womb,. And in the hollow of her breasts a tomb. Content thee, howsoe’er, whose days are done;. There lies not any troublous thing before,. Nor sight nor sound to war against thee more,. The Navajo C...